Animation won't work

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I'm trying to animate a ship for my scrolling shooter, but when I run it, all it does is sit there on frame 0.

Here's the LoadAnimImage section I used

;load the ship image
playerImage = LoadAnimImage("ship_idle.bmp",80,70,0,4)

Everything looks fine. Here's the 1st portion of the main loop, concerned with animation.

While Not KeyHit(KEY_ESC)

;clear screen
Cls

;animate the ship
player1\frame = player1\frame + 1
If player1\frame > 4
	player1\frame = 0
EndIf

I think maybe here is where I'm screwing up?