diff --git a/stepmania/TODO.chris b/stepmania/TODO.chris
index 7aa5fd918b..7205d02472 100644
--- a/stepmania/TODO.chris
+++ b/stepmania/TODO.chris
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 Fix
 /////////////////////////
 
+Wow!  pngcrush takes off 50% on some of these paletted pngs.  I'll look into making a script that we can check into CVS and run periodically.
+
 disable modifiers in extra stage
 
 the only other thing is to encorporate `...'   to replace <...>, and instead turn the <...> as triple jumps or more than 2 arrow jumps. its the new DWI format.
diff --git a/stepmania/Themes/default/Graphics/_blank.png b/stepmania/Themes/default/Graphics/_blank.png
index bed6a0687f..b6e2bc5f18 100644
Binary files a/stepmania/Themes/default/Graphics/_blank.png and b/stepmania/Themes/default/Graphics/_blank.png differ
diff --git a/stepmania/Utils/Bitmap Font Builder.exe b/stepmania/Utils/Bitmap Font Builder.exe
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..0b576742fb
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diff --git a/stepmania/Utils/forfiles.exe b/stepmania/Utils/forfiles.exe
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..7fa0a22c98
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diff --git a/stepmania/Utils/pngcrush.exe b/stepmania/Utils/pngcrush.exe
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..49914aa11d
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diff --git a/stepmania/Utils/pngcrushallfiles.bat b/stepmania/Utils/pngcrushallfiles.bat
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..09742179cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stepmania/Utils/pngcrushallfiles.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\stepmania\stepmania\utils\
+forfiles -p.. -s -m*.png -c"pngcrushinplace.bat @FILE"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/stepmania/Utils/pngcrushinplace.bat b/stepmania/Utils/pngcrushinplace.bat
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..e057ada5b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stepmania/Utils/pngcrushinplace.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pngcrush %1 new%1
+del %1
+rename new%1 %1