CS5 save for web bug with slices 1 png, the rest gif

Do me good forum, this is my first post from 112 degree AZ.
I'm trying to "save for web" slices in illustrator cs5. I optimize the images to transparent .png in the sidebar in the save for web dialog box. Then I click save. And I do the "user slices" option in the NEXT dialog (hello complicated process, but it makes sense to me). 5 slices should be output. 5 are. But only one is a png. The rest are gif files. And not transparent.
That makes me to throw an anvil through the floor of the USS(R) Adobe.
But rather than going through such extreme measures, I'd figure I'd post first.
I guess in the time I researched and wrote this post, I could have saved each individual slice with the proper optimization settings, but what fun would that be? And maybe I'm just plain missing somthing and someone will say, hey "footheadleg" your a total moron. The checkbox to save ALL the slices for your desired setting is at blah blah blah.
Do it. Shame me. And then, my problem will be fixed at last. MUwhwhwhwahahahaa.
FREE GIFT: cmd+shift+d changes illustrators white artboard to transparent pixels. I learned that becasue I thought maybe I had a white layer showing on accident. I didn't. That's because I'm perfect. Perfectly human.

Footheadleg, you have so much to learn, and so little time. Let me teach you my ways. Though while on Illustrator's main canvas it may seem that you can change settings of each slice, you can't. I know, there are little icons top left of each image, one looks like an email symbol, and it would seem you could just email the slice to a friend.
Pretty soon you'll be able to "Like" the slice on Facebook. Or post it to your del.i.cious account. Or tweet it. Or 17,000 other VERY VALUABLE shares. But Footheadleg, these symbols mean nothing to you, except that they are slices.
HOWEVER, when in "save for web" mode, you can in fact change the settings of each slice. Here's what you do. Press k. (slice tool selector thingie) then hop over to the sidebar and click on the settings you want. Do this for EACH slice. I know, it would seem easier if there was a checkbox that said "apply to all slices," but why make things easy?
Plus, Illustrator is a rad program, so don't knock it, unless you can design something better. And you can't. So get over yourself and enjoy the pain
Yours truly,
Yourself.

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