OK....i accepted a plain fact.

I have been capturing a TV show for 12 months now from TV and VCD them. I had my little menu going as well, and they looked great. I then upgraded to XP, and had to upgrade NERO with it. But from them on, i could create menus but with NO background image of any kind no matter what i did. I could resize the original image so Nero wouldn't need to resize etc. After weeks of trying, i gave in and decided it must be a nero issue with XP.

But then after many months of no good looking menus (Plain black backgrounds), someone tells about about this site http://khitomer.net/
where they have downable VCD covers and menu backgrounds, I downloaded it and checked it out.....and for the first time since using XP......BACKGROUND WORKS!

I then thought, oh maybe one of those things i wasn't doing right, so i grabbed my original backdrop, loaded them both into Paint Shop Pro and discovered THEY WERE INDENTICAL, right down to the size in bytes.

BUT if i use any other image, it doesn't work, use the enterprise image and it DOES work. It is THE ONLY image i can get to work as a background in menus.

What does that image contain that mine would not, does it need to have some type of special jpg encoding? The Compression to be within a special range?

Looking for any type of info to lead me in the right direction