looks like you solved it Sledge!
In win98 afair there is no 16 or 32 bit image that can go on the clipboard, high-color is always 24bit. It must be different in xp. The solution for 16 bit would be to peek a short and then convert that to 3 bytes. Looking up BITMAPINFO in the Win32 help it says 16bit is 555, saying that it could be 656. You'd just have to try it.
In win98 afair there is no 16 or 32 bit image that can go on the clipboard, high-color is always 24bit. It must be different in xp. The solution for 16 bit would be to peek a short and then convert that to 3 bytes. Looking up BITMAPINFO in the Win32 help it says 16bit is 555, saying that it could be 656. You'd just have to try it.