3D graphics served up

I have been asked to greate a 3d icon displaying statistics, and to
serve up the icons.

I have been able to create the images using DirectX3d and saving the
image to a .png file ( or stream ) and sending the icon to the client.

I have found out there are no 3d drivers for any video card for Server
2003 so my server page works fine from my XP development pc but
doesn't work from the 2003 server it needs to run on.

I now think I just went down the wrong path, does anyone else have a
better idea of how I could make 3d images?
is there another language that I won't have problems getting drivers
for, or should I have tried an ActiveX on the clients, etc.

any ideas would be appreciated.