image loading, but not appearing in an Empty, latest release 2.77 Still a bit of a noob with Blender and definitely with this stack exchange, so please go gentle!

Anyone else having a problem getting images (.png, .tiff, .jpg) to show up in an empty in the 2.77 release? I realize I can use a background image, but would rather use an empty for the perspective view. Tried disabling the "import images as planes" add-on, thinking that script might've altered something, but no luck.

Hope this issue isn't something moronically obvious that I'm missing here; many thanks ahead!
Use shiftA and select Add->Empty->Image



Then in the data section of the Properties panel Look for the Display control to open the image: