No boot splash screen on laptop

[jaspmatt]

My laptop refuses to display a gzipped .xpm file in Grub even though it works quite well with my (2) other Gloria installations on my desktops. here is a cut-down version of my menu.lst file for your viewing pleasure. Has anyone seen this on a laptop before?

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default		0

## Graphical boot menu location
#gfxmenu=/boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message

timeout		5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/penguin.new.xpm.gz

title		Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title           Windows XP Home Edition
root            (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

[jaspmatt]

After poking around all afternoon I think I have answered my own question. It appears that Mint has modified and uses their own version of Grub called Grub-gfxmint I believe. So the command splashimage is no longer recognized as valid and appears to be ignored. I have two choices here. Either live with the Mint boot screen, or apt-get remove the grub-gfxmint version and re-install the standard Grub package unless some learned guru reads this and can tell me how to use the new gfxmenu command to put up the splashimage I want.
Suggestions and comments welcome at this point.