2.49b UV Mapping not working?

(OKAY, IN THIS SCREENSHOTS, THE OBJECT WAS NOT SELECTED HOWEVER I SWEAR I TESTED IT WITHTHE MODEL BEING SELECTED AND ALL, JUST LAZY TO MAKE UP ANOTHER SCREENIE)

This is concerning UV mapping
Okay, I’ve been dealing with this problem for most of the day and I’ve been searching online for tutorials on how to make it work but somehow, in my system, it just doesn’t.

http://i30.tinypic.com/3467zgw.jpg
so i made a cube, cut it and made a seam(though the cut was unnecessary), then proceeded to unwrap it.

however, after unwrapping…
http://i31.tinypic.com/9h2k60.jpg
(encircled in red are the parts that ‘changed’ but the uv/image space itself is blank)
the lines that were supposed to appear on the uv/image doesn’t appear?

I’ve tried this with different models and it just doesn’t work.

Now, your faces are unwrapped but to be able to see U and V vectors coordinates of faces; you must select Faces.