JEditorPane setPage() problem

Hi,
  In the following code, for some reason the first setPage() (" jep.setPage("file:///c:/Searching.txt");") never executes and I don't know why. The code below it executes just fine, and if I remove all the code below it in the try block so the first is the only setPage() in the block, then it will work, too.  Anyone know what's going on?

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
        try{
            jep.setPage("file:///c:/Searching.txt");
            String text = jtf.getText();
            SearchBible2_1 sb = new SearchBible2_1();
            sb.search(text);
           
            jep.setPage("file:///c:/BibleSearchResults.html");
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }  

First, I don't see any reason why the first setPage() shouldn't show given that the following search take several seconds...

I tried this (putting it to sleep) and it still doesn't show the jep.setPage("file:///c:/Searching.txt");   :
 
        try{
            String text = jtf.getText();
           
            sb.search(text);
            jep.setPage("file:///c:/Searching.txt");
            Thread.sleep(50000);
            jep.setPage("file:///c:/BibleSearchResults.html");
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }



then I tried this with the same results:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
        try {  
            Runnable r = new Runnable(){
                public void run(){
                    try{
                        jep.setPage("file:///c:/Searching.txt");
                    }
                    catch(Exception e){
                        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                    }
                }
            };
            Thread t = new Thread(r);
            t.start();
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
        try{
            Thread.sleep(5000);
            String text = jtf.getText();
           
            sb.search(text);
           
           
            jep.setPage("file:///c:/BibleSearchResults.html");
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }  
}


I still don't understand what's happening...this seems like a bug to me.