KoolMoves 1.75a is crashing when I try to do the following:

1. I make a rectangle with a gradient-fill, the gradient-fill rotated to vertical. (I'm considering the default orientation as horizontal here.) This rectangle is to serve as a background for a header swf and is just large enough to cover a 700(w) by 125(h) movie.

2. I capture the movie frame, with nothing but this gradient-filled rectangle in it, and save it as a bitmap.

3. I open my header movie (also 700 x 125) and import the bitmap to use as a background. (I do it this way because I'm hoping an imported bitmap background will match the html page's gif background more closely than when I use the vector-generated rectangle directly, if you see what I mean.)

4. I either try to view the movie in the stand-alone player, the web browser, or I try to export it for the web. In all 3 cases I get an illegal operation message and the program shuts down.

This crash only occurs if I try to use the KM-generated bitmap as an imported image for the background. If I use the vector-drawn version directly, there is no problem. Also, I have no other problem viewing or exporting any other movies as far as I can tell.

Also, at this point the header movie only contains a little static text and a couple of static shapes. There is no motion or animation of any kind yet.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Matt