>>>Did you set Distance to be 15 in the Property Sheet?
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>>I drop the control onto the form, open the prop sheet, and it's set to15. No idea why
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>Weird, I don't see why either. Try renaming this property to something like iDistance just for the test.

Ok, this is strange:

I renamed it to iDistance and it no longer showed up in the prop sheet. So I renamed it back and it now works fine. I removed and
readded it to the form and the property is no longer being set.

Go figure.