diff --git a/rotating_banner.module b/rotating_banner.module
index ef21b4d..d22ad65 100644
--- a/rotating_banner.module
+++ b/rotating_banner.module
@@ -238,10 +238,36 @@ function rotating_banner_block_configure($delta) {
   $rb_form['slides']['slide_table']['weight'] = array('#tree' => TRUE);
   
   foreach ($slides as $slide) {
-    $media = media_load($slide->fid);
-    $preview = field_view_field('media', $media, 'file', 'media_preview');
+    $preview = array();
+    //The media load does not exist it has been replaced by an odd function
+    //media_multi_load that takes multiple ids in a string, separated by spaces
+    //$media = media_load($slide->fid);
+    $multiple_media = media_multi_load("{$slide->fid}");
+    $media = $multiple_media[$slide->fid];
+
+    //This next  line of code seem to suggest that there is a media
+    //entity that contains a file field, but the media_multi_load is
+    //returning the file itself, so I guess that we will have to re
+    //arrange things to use the file entity instead of the media entity
+    //$preview = field_view_field('media', $media, 'file', 'media_preview');
+
     $preview['#theme_wrappers'][] = 'media_thumbnail';
 
+    //the media_thumbnail theme needs a couple of things to display something
+    //first it looks for a #file key with the file, and then it looks for a
+    //thumbnail under the key #children (???). Anyways the content of #children
+    //does not get render so I am guessing that media_thumbnial is expecting
+    //straight html.
+    $preview['#file'] = $media;
+
+    $vars = array(
+      'style_name' => 'thumbnail',
+      'path' => $media->uri,
+      'alt' => 'image',
+      'title' => '',
+    );
+    $preview['#children'] = theme('image_style', $vars);
+
     $i++;
     $rb_form['slides']['slide_table']['weight'][$slide->sid] = array(
       '#type' => 'weight',