Yeah, I noticed that, too. It's like the newer Windows' memory management is a bit more all over the place. I saw the script being shoved around in memory in 3 different places, then moved around constantly. I had problems trying to lock down anything. Guess it's a bit out of my range of experience.
And The Gimp, you say? It can open that strange format? Huh. Never would have thought it would.
Sorry about that. Also, lemur7 really wants the CG set for this game. Perhaps you could give them a bit of a hand, if you've managed to extract the files and convert them? ^^