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@PhilPub
I'm not an expert on wheelbuilding, but isn't the key thing here that the spoke pattern should be ''cross 3'' rather than ''cross 2'' for 32 spokes? I looked this up when I received my 28-spoke wheels from Harry Rowland - who knows a bit about building wheels - with a spoke pattern I didn't recognise:
http://sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html#semi-tangent
''The more spokes a wheel has, the higher the cross number for a similar spoke angle. 48-spoke wheels are usually built cross 5, 40 spokes, cross 4; 36 spokes, cross 3 or 4; 32 spokes, cross 3; 28 or 24 spokes, cross 2...''