PSP X5 Transparency/mask problems

[yukonzoom]

I cant find any info on this anywhere, but i am having a problem with the mask automatically deleting and making transparent the image when I load up a TGA. Simply deleting the mask doesn't bring back the parts of the image that are become transparent, the mask is deleting everything it touches upon loading of the image. Is this a setting somewhere I accidentally turned on? or a bug? PSP didn't used to do this when I first installed it. I have reset all the preferences, uninstalled/reinstalled, but no fix.

This is what I am getting in PSP:


What the image SHOULD look like (opened in PS)

[Michu]

Had a similiar issues with GIMP and certain TGA files. The cure was a workaround - decompose an TGA file into RGB (ending up with 2 channels - Grey & alpha) and recombine it from RGB again - I would get original image back minus transparency,, which I'd have redo.

It looks like both GIMP and newer PSP have some issues with TGA files saved in PS......

[yukonzoom]

Apparently this is still a problem in X7. Is there a setting somewhere so the alpha isn't auto transparencing the image?