The .gif format has absolutely nothing to do with the Mac, I'm just talking about a small 3rd party utility than can *import* gif files like many other types of images. The Mac OS doesn't use gifs in it's system whatsoever. We're just talking cursors here, don't confuse that with the Mac in general.
I appreciate the effort and no don't install any software just for this, I thought it would be a simple thing to do...