[konidias]

I'm not really sure what the elements program can do. Anyway, I use Animagic for animating my graphics. All you'd basically be doing is taking your photoshop frames, copying them, pasting them into animagic, and then adjusting the framerate and stuff in the program and saving it. It's also helpful for setting transparency easily because you can just paste any image into the program and select one of the colors in the image to be transparent.

Your second problem sounds like you need to restart your Graal exe to make the image show... just a suggestion.