Old school SetWinMetaFileBits() fails after ~4K iterations. What am I missing here?

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I'm suspect it might have something to do with the handle, but I can't find any good documentation on this.

Basically I have an old, legacy VC++ 6.0 app that does some work with the old metafile format. In the process of converting it to Enhanced Metafile format I call SetWinMetaBits.
As the title says, after about 4K iterations, I get a NULL handle and CANNOT recover. Whatever I do, wherever I go, who ever I see, that method will return NULL forever until I restart the app.


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