Back to basics.

Right. Going to have to try with gif files instead. I'm going to have to check I'm using the right SDK because these routines seem to work for everybody else except me. Just looking at this problem has held me up for almost a month and is the most embaressing knock to my coding self confidence yet.

I guess I'm taking this a little personnally, which on a more positive note means that I will solve this problem. Why ? Because it's peeved me off to such a state that I'm going to fix this if it's the last thing I do.