Photoshop elements 6 with vista - transparency problem

I just installed Photoshop Elements 6 to my new laptop which has Vista. I used Photoshop Elements 6 previously for digital scrapbook layouts on my old computer that had XP. In XP when I dragged a element that had a tranparent part onto my layout the tranparent part (was grey and white checkered before I put it on the layout) was invisible like it should be. When I do the same thing on my laptop with Vista the part that should be transparent shows up gray. Please help!!

That's pretty interesting because you should have had the same problem in XP, if I'm understanding what you're saying. You should be able to drag from the layers palette in either operating system, but you can't drag from the project bin in PSE 6 and 7 the way you can in earlier versions. That creates a special kind of pass through layer intended for use in a photo book.
Are you sure you weren't dragging from the palette in XP and from the bin in Vista?

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