load texture image just won't work

In blender 2.27, When I create a new texture, designate it “image”, and then select “load”,
Blender hangs without fail. It seems that in every circumstance I get this error. Is this a known bug, Or do I have a setting to tweak or somthing.
thanks in advance, -chris

Hi!

You might have a broken image in the images directory, which can make Blender’s image gallery crash.

Just use the little grey button without label next to the “load image” button,
which will come up with a normal fileselect instead of the preview mode.