Icon Composer Hanging up?

Does anyone experience Icon Composer hanging up? I try dragging a transparent PNG onto it and whenever it tries to compute the 16x16 it always beachballs then the system completely freezes. Also it hangs every few minutes.
G5 Dual 2.0
10.5.2

I have trying dragging in every combination of files (.png / .tiff, 8-bit / 16-bit, alpha / no-alpha) I can think of from the finder and directly from a photoshop window and a preview sidebar. I only got previously made app icons to drag in once from preview I think it was. None of my pics work :/
Hangs. I can drag more in and it keeks overlaying the import dialogue on top of the last one.
Is there a correct method to ensure a result?

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