Ok, I just had a flat forhead moment!

This bitmap has like 16 colors and I'm saving it in the default pixel format (number of colors). If I lower the pixel format down I should be able to write to the bitmap just fine!

Sorry for the thread folks. Move along, nothing to see here . . .
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