Vista finally supports 32-bit bitmaps in menus natively, together with a new, decent, gradient-y selection indicator. Perhaps you should use the native comctl32 menus instead of the owner drawn solution on Vista?
See the shellrevealed.com for a sample: http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2007/02/06/Vista-Style-Menus_2C 00_-Part-1-_2D00_-Adding-icons-to-standard-menus.aspx -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,44429,44429> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
