I looked around after my post and found the following:
http://www.copseystrain.com/iconsucker/index.html
"Icon Sucker is a utility that allows you to extract, or "suck," icons out of the files on your hard drive. Many different file types on your computer contain one or even many icons that you can use. Icon Sucker makes it easy to open these files and "suck" the icons out of them. "
Free download (A ZDnet editor's pick). I am going through my PC now and have a ton of icons to choose from. I have not found the Windows "copy" and "paste" just yet, but will soon enough.
Also, this site explains how to make very basic icons using paint:
http://www.purple-owl.com/pocketpc-p...s-mspaint.html
"ICONS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM FOR YOUR PALM OR POCKET PC"
HOW TO TURN MICROSOFT PAINT INTO AN ICON EDITOR
1: Fire up msPaint.
Select File, New.
Go to menu item Image. Choose Attributes.
On the panel that appears, enter the icon size you want. Say Width 16, Height 16.
Make sure the Units are pixels and you're working in colours.
2: You'll hardly be able to see the resulting white square drawing area, so go to View - Zoom - Custom and click 800% magnification.
3: Select the paint brush (not the pencil) and choose the round brush head (top row in the 'brush drawer' panel) at the tiniest size. This gives a one-pixel drawing tool.
4: Now go to File - Save As. Give the image a name. MyIcon, Albert or whatever.
Under Save As Type select '16 Color Bitmap'.
Save your blank canvas. This will display the 16 colour palette for you to work with.
Note 1. The fewer colours you have, the smaller your file will be.
Note 2. Even if you're making a two-colour (black and white) image, you'll need to work in colour first. Select shades with a good contrast between dark and light. Save as two colours only when you've finished. (If you try to paint in two colours, the mouse annoyingly spatters trails of unwanted pixels.)
There you are then. A mini-picture editor.
Canvas, brushes and paints all ready to work with.