>You can put it on a form, take away the form's border, splashscreen, titlebar, etc, and make it not movable, alwaysOnBottom, and the user would not know the different.

Your probably right - it pains me to think of it - i have the Outlook bar looking so nice on the main window - resizing automatically and all. Strange Mark MacCausland's solution works with other OLE objects though - this problem seems limited to the web browser............ sigh.

jp