Recipe for creating a splash screen?

So far I haven't been perfectly successful at creating a splash screen for my Baby Names app.

My first approach was to use a NavigationPane with a timer whereby the splash screen would be displayed and then the next page would be loaded automatically after a couple of seconds.

But that leads to there being a "Back" button on what should be the first screen.

My second approach was to simply hide the container holding the splash image after the two seconds and show the container holding the first screen, but now that I have an action bar at the bottom of the screen, that is showing when the splash screen is visible.

Ideally there would be a way to replace the "BlackBerry" loading screen with a custom image. Perhaps there is a way to do that.

Forum post:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Cascades-Development/How-to-create-a-splash-screen/td-p/1806769

Update: Figured it out