Icons disappear in Cover Flow when window resized...

I created a custom folder icon for my Pixelmator projects, applied it to the folder, and all looked to be perfect. However, I later discovered that when I resized the Finder window and the icon grows larger in Coverflow, my icon disappears! This seems to be the case for all of the icons I created. Is there something I'm missing? Did I do something wrong with the creation? Or is the template I'm using not working the way it's supposed to? I can post pictures or a screencast of my issue if it'd help...
I got the template from the first post in http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=392360
_To give you a brief idea of my creation process:_
1. Edited template in Pixelmator (added picture on top of folder).
2. Exported file as PNG
3. Using IconComposer, dragged in PNG, and exported icns file
4. Using IconDroplet, I created a usable icon
5. Went to "Get Info" on both files and pasted new icon
I can't figure this out. Please help!

Finally! I'm pleased to say that I was informed of a solution today on another forum. I downloaded the program img2icns, and everything looks to be working how I want it to. Hopefully that helps you out, too! I'm marking this one 'solved.'
http://www.shinyfrog.net/en/software/img2icns/

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!http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~tomlinso/argh.jpg!
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