16-bit color w/ Remote Desktop Connection?

I am using Remote Desktop Connection v1.03 on my Powerbook. Whenever I connect to my PC, I can only choose 15-bit color quality, however the program I want to run on the PC requires 16- bit color and thus won't run.
On the PC itself there is no problem, it displays millions of color at 32-bit, but I don't get this option when connecting remotely. It is running XP sp1 with I believe a 32mb GForce card.
I have also tried tweaking the RDC options but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone know how I can get 16-bit color through Remote Desktop Connecxtion?
15" 1.5ghz Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.4)

16bit colour is the default maximum colour depth for RDP connections to a windows terminal server. You can increase this by editing the local group policy object on the windows machine.
Go to start->run and type gpedit.msc
Browse to Computer Configuration/Administrative Template/Windows Components/Terminal Services and edit the "Limit Maximum colour depth properties" key. Set it to enabled and select 24 bit. Click OK close group policy editor. You should now be able to get 24bit colour over RDP connections.

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