Hmm... Makes me wonder if Hijack could use black as transparent in the .png file. Then there's no need for a chopped up image file, as CSS could be used to position the .png file over a single Empeg face image. (And then users can colour their empeg face whatever they like.) Does IE support transparent png files, yet?

edit: hmm... come to think of it, if the white portions were also 95% transparent (or something like that), then the text would pick up a tinge of colour from underneath...