Hey, FIX94, your modification works. It crashed for me once, on the first time I tested it, but did not happen again after much going back and forth, trying to reproduce it.
On the other hand, I think will keep using the old one because the image in the new banner looks degraded, I'm assuming due to the down-sampling. This is on a rear projection TV, so I imagine it would even be more noticeable in an LCD or plasma TV.
What bugs me even more than the crashes is the white vertical border on the icon, so if you do find a solution, I'll be all over it.
Thanks again.