Didn't read the entire thread, so forgive me if it's been covered already, but where is the author of this class? It sounds like with a couple fixes it could be working like it should.

>As we do not have vartype "H", this method *never* destroyed any Icon properly. However in the new one I made sure they do not get destroyed when I don't want to. I stepped through the debugger and DestroyIcon does not get called.