I believe normally the small list view uses 16x16 icons, I've never had a problem using these. Bear in mind however that the listview uses an ImageList to store these, therefore it's actually storing an Image rather than an Icon. It might be that instead the 32x32 icon is being used and scaled down to 16x16 when you add it which could cause your problem.An easy way to check is to make your icons significantly different and ensure that you get the icon you're expecting.
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