Ok Ok.....

1000 = 1, of course, sorry.

Its still not working, and I even set the opacity of the form properties directly at 20%, but it still shows 100% opaque when the program starts....its a mystery..... :?

I apologise CPUWizard, but I'm learning from books....many books, and I've done everything they have gone through with the debugger, which I have to admit has only been a very basic overview of what Step Into, Step Over and breakpoints are. No Errors are showing up for this, so the debugger is not helping. I've walked through the code line by line myself numerous times. I promise I will try to get a book that goes into more detail on the debugger.