Hi Sam,
It's probably the quotation marks " that causes the problem. Just send me the png image at johan.sanneblad@home.se and I will have a quick look at it.
>> I saw in the Plasma that CreateFont is called with (0) as parameter instead of GDCREATEFONT_TRACKING and GDCREATEFONT_SIMPLEBITMAP.
Basically you don't have to set any flags if you use the kerned font variant ("complex bitmap"?) and don't want to specify tracking.
/Johan