I have a small problem when using Director class to change scenes.

I have a background image which will be the small for every scene, but when I change from my menu to my game scene, there's a quick flash where the background image appears off near the edge of the screen. Then the game scene loads as normal. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
Should I be loading the same background image for each scene, or is there a way to load it just once and re-use it each time?
Thanks