I am able to use favicons if I copy one from another site and test. But my own doesn't work in IE8/Chrome. Mine is a 32x32 24bit icon created by Visual Studio. I always seem to have problems getting icons working right, what should I use? I thought I could have images up to 64x64...
See this site for instructions for creating a favicon.ico - it needs to be 16*16, not 32*32 (though you can have a composite .ico with both sizes).
I have created composite .ico files with several sizes, so they appear correctly on the browser and the desktop.