About making the black transparent: what I found out when I tried to do this is that you need an image with an alpha channel, in the form of a mask of the object which screens out the background. Since my graphics app (Painter5) doesn't support alpha channels, I wasn't able to do this, but someone with Photoshop should be able to. Speaking of which, does anyone know if Photoshop LE supports alpha channels? Trying to save a couple bucks here.....