Stacks icons in the Dock

Hi,
I recently installed Leopard and have been playing around with setting up Stacks in my Dock. However, most of the time when I drag a new folder into the Dock to be a stack it changes the icon image that I have set for it to either a standard folder icon or some random icon. Does anyone know how to keep the icon that I have previously set in the Dock?
Thanks in advance.

What do you mean less elegant?
-mj
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