I'm having a heckuva time getting transparency to work consistently with non-perpixel borders lately. Used to be that magic pink worked fine but I happened to modify one of my skins a month or so ago to use magic pink & the magic pink would display, not the transparent bits. On a hunch, I changed to .tga images for left & right borders & that seemed to work, though sometimes either magic pink or black would display instead of the transparent bits & I'd have to reload the skin a few times to get the transparency to work. Now, using .tga's (imported .png's) for the left & right borders results in correct transparency of the right border but black pixels for the transparent bits in the left border no matter how many times I reload the skin. I tried switching back to .bmp's with magic pink & the magic pink shows, despite the fact that magic pink transparency works for the caption/titlebar (with a peculiar exception - see below.)

In addition, an oddity has surfaced with magic pink transparency in the caption/titlebar. I have magic pink pixels in the active titlebar only, but the corresponding pixels in the inactive titlebar paint as black, even though I haven't touched that part of the image.

Anyway, never seemed to have difficulty using magic pink in borders in 4.x or before (not sure I tried it with 5.x until this). I can't find a transparency switch for the non-perpixel borders and I'm not sure why .tga's display correctly at one time and not another, in one place and not another. I'd prefer to stick with .bmp's & magic pink, but that doesn't work for the left & right borders at all now.

Any advice?

TIA