This is what is commonly known as
THREAD NECROMANCY
but...
I have returned to this IDE, MinGW, and DevIL in the hopes that it might help me load JPEG's, which everyone knows are much smaller than BMP files. However, after deciding to actually try what arturomdn said on January 25, 2007, i got exactly the same errors as before.
Suggestions welcome.
Edit (edit not made on a computer with Code::Blocks or my project on it):
I followed arturomdn's suggestion precisely, and while this did manage to fix the problem of it giving an error when it doesn't find the correct static library files, it has resumed with the "undefined reference to '_imp__*'" errors.