Texture on a sphere

[marshats]

I saw the mirroring also -- I fixed it with glVertex3f rather than 2f as follows

   //draw textured rectangle
   glPushMatrix();
      glTranslatef(0.0,0.0,1.0);
      glScalef(0.5,0.5,0.5);
      glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0, 0.0);
        glVertex3f( -1.0,-1.0, 0.0);
        glTexCoord2f(1.0, 0.0);
        glVertex3f(  1.0,-1.0, 0.0);
        glTexCoord2f(1.0, 1.0);
        glVertex3f(  1.0, 1.0, 0.0);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0, 1.0);
        glVertex3f( -1.0, 1.0, 0.0);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0, 0.0);
        glVertex3f( -1.0,-1.0, 0.0);
      glEnd();
   glPopMatrix();

If that doesn't fix it then attach your bitmap so I can try again.