Janet, it might be time to try an image editor.
If you make your slides outside of VSD/Firestarter then you can get the effect you want without having to worry about how VSD or a web browser renders your images.

This must not apply to me.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/fireround.html
I copied and pasted the bottom left hand corner twice and dragged them to the right almost to the middle. There not easy to spot but you can see them and they retained their original name and transparency.

Did you alter the flash code as I posted above.

OK, I'm out of date I've had problems with PNGs being converted, so I haven't copied or re-sized them in VSD for a long time. Just had a play, some were OK, some lost transparency when placed over another object and... lucky me... I still get the 'improper argument' warning when a graphic or text overlaps an html box.

I haven't had the improper argument in a long time *knocks on wood*, but I still get HTML files being placed in the files folder.

Yep, copied and pasted right off your post, Eric, the only thing I did was change to capitals!

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
ID=slideshow WIDTH=809 HEIGHT=490>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="slideshow.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=wmode value=transparent>
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=true>
<EMBED src="slideshow.swf" loop=true quality=high
WIDTH=809 HEIGHT=490 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

In VSD click on the html box for the slideshow now click on "Object" at the top of VSD then "Arrange" then "Send to back". Now click on the corner images and then "Object" then "Arrange" then "Send to front".

Still didn't work! I tried send to front, and when that didn't work, I tried bring forward, still no round edges. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong!

I'm no VSD expert, but I was thinking that since you have tried various things to get this to work, maybe you have too much redundant, conflicting code that you need to get rid of first in order to make it work? Eric or Paintbrush, who are the experts, will have to tell you if it's necessary and how to do it.

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