Maybe I have an answer to this squashing... I was comparing your resources with the ones present in SP3, and I found that most of the new resources do not respect the originals. To be more clear: the original icon is 32x32 4bit, and the new one has different sizes, 4 bit and more colours. Another case is that in the original icon, the order of the sizes is different from the order in the new icon. Does this have an impact? And why do you replace a 32x32 (or other size) only icon, with one that has multiple sizes? Also, I found the same issue with the avi's . The new ones can be 399x50 in size, but the older ones are 272x60. From what I saw on my system, XP handles this by cropping the animation.
