Needing rest of my custom caption to be transparent

I created 5 simple .bmps to be custom captions. They have a white background, however I placed a single yellow pixel in the top-left corner of each so that it would render anything outside of the caption that was white transparent, but inside of the caption that was white, - white.
I have read that by placing a color that would not be used in the course on the caption, and by placing it in the top-left corner, Captivate would do this. The captions are having the white background (which is great), but still showing the rest of the images background to show the full rectangle. I'm almost there - but not quite what I was going for.
Please see image below:
Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have tried inserting a 1px stroke around entire image, and this is what I got. It shows the image, but also the entire stroke.
When I insert just a white background without the odd-color pixel, the following is seen:
Please. Any suggestions you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Kevin

Hey Rick -
Just so as I understand. If I have the green caption with a white internal background, all I need to do is lift the green balloon (with white color within the caption), and place it on a pink canvas - and that will keep all the surrounding areas on the outside of my caption transparent? I also need to make sure that I have to have probably at least a 1px area around the image from the edge of the canvas so it doesn't touch the size of the caption. Is that what I am understanding?
I still save it as a .bmp right from my image editor, correct (Fireworks)?
No, I do not save a bmp as a FCM file extension. I have opened up the FCM file extensions (and have in the past), and know that they contain the x,y cooridinates and margins for the captions - as well as the same for the hotspots.
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