Problems with imaging

How do you load and render a bitmap/jpeg to the screen? Im having trouble with this. Does Opengl have a bmp/jpeg loader or do I have to download a specific class for it. I looked in the OPENGL SUPERBIBLE and the technique listed produced no results.

No, it does not have. There are many image library that do that stuff quiete easily. Try this one:

http://openil.sourceforge.net/