No white border! Transparency Problem [RESOLVED!]

Im working on a game in a sense, More or less just a project to kill time! I have the character walking around the screen ( Collision detection isn't working need help there to Link ) But this is more of a general question thats why it is here not in the game section. My current code is this so you can get an idea:

VB Code:

With Form1
        .AutoRedraw = True
        .KeyPreview = True
        .PaintPicture Char.Picture, iX, iY
    End With
 
    'Paints the Character
    Form1.PaintPicture Char.Picture, iX, iY
    Form1.PaintPicture book.Picture, iXbook, iYbook

I have a problem with my .gif file not being transparent. What can I do without getting very complicated?

*Thanks for the help! Solid advice :)

Convert it to icon if not too big.

How would i do that? And how would that help?

Its a pretty small picture. Also is there any other thing I could possibly try?

How would you do that? - get some icon editor like Microangelo (best out there) www.microangelo.us. There are also plenty of freewares and sharewares available.

How would that help? - windows icons support transparency and are very easy to handle in oppose to gif and jpeg type of images (VB doesn't really handle them good enough - especially when image moves it starts flickering).

Is there any other thing? - there sure is but this is the simplest way ...