I tried the reimplementing paintEvent with the same code (the class was just a widget before and it worked then...no it's a QGraphicsView class....but should still work since QGraphicsView inherits QWidget....), but to no avail...then you said, "But why do you reimplement the paint event in the first place? You should reimplement drawForeground or drawBackground instead."
So...I tried foreground....I'm now assuming that paintEvent is drawing over it?