Actually, that is part of the code I actually wrote for my inventory window. I set my autoequip area transparency to true and overlayed it with the animation... no problems at all! Except that I used screenshots of a pet and tried to duplicate the swaggering effect and he looks more likle Stevie Wonder's corpse the way he moves, but oh well... I'll get around to fixing it some day, lol!
It probably would be a better idea to do the item name (also <pieces>) as different name, ie. "A_Skelly". But, as I said before, I don't have any errors from it.