No problem, I wasn't sure if you were just referring to the lack of alpha or not.
Which brings me to...
Which brings me to...
Is it going to look like that when I paste the pixmap over to another pixmap?
I'm afraid so. Pixmap operations do not respect the alpha channel (although they preserve it). If you want to blit pixmaps with alpha, you'll have to create your own routines (or use a render to texture routine).