pygame on win32, image.fromstring()

[tlviewer]

hello,

The script below is a prototype for loading playing card images
from the bitmap resource in cards.dll (WinXP)

I like the idea of not keeping copies of the images
as files.

I'm able to extract the card images as files, then load
them in pygame as a surface, but I keep getting errors
when directly loading the image as string.

The call below never works, what I'm I doing wrong?
gm.image.fromstring()

I tried to use PIL too, but I can't tell yet if 
pygame will accept the image string from PIL.

# begin python
import win32api as wi 

import string as st 
import pygame as gm 
import Image as im
hnd = wi.LoadLibrary("c:/winnt/system32/cards.dll")

# this header works for 71x96x1BPP image
# must be one line
header = [ chr(0x42), chr(0x4D), chr(0xDE), chr(0x0D), chr(0x00), chr(0x00), chr(0x00), chr(0x00), chr(0x00), chr(0x00), chr(0x4A), chr(0x00), chr(0x00), chr(0x00)]

#sheader = ''.join([ chr(header[x]) for x in range(len(header))]) 
str = wi.LoadResource( hnd, 2, 11, 1033)
fp = open( "e:/batch/python/aceclub.bmp", "wt")

str = st.join(header,'') + str

fp.write( str) 
fp.close () 

wi.FreeLibrary(hnd)
print len(str)  

# gives: ValueError: String length does not equal format and resolution size
img = gm.image.fromstring(str,(71,96),"P")

#print img.mode  

#fp = open("e:/batch/msdn/Bitmap_11.bmp", "rb") 
obj = gm.image.load("e:/batch/python/aceclub.bmp")

print obj.get_rect()