GS>  I've gotten as far as determining when my container is being dragged
 GS>  over, and when something is dropped on it, but I can't seem to hack
 GS>  out the code to create the icon for it when it is dropped.

Simply insert the desired record into the container.  Look up
CM_ALLOCRECORD and CM_INSERTRECORD in the online reference.

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