The behavior you were having with the PictureBox is by design. Controls placed on the MDI container will always show on top of child forms. Using the background image on the form is the best approach for what you are trying to accomplish.

>Cathi...
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>What I forgot to mention was that on the parent form, I was actually dropping a picture control onto the form and setting the image property.
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>When I removed the picture control and simply set the background image on the parent form, the child form loaded and displayed fine.
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>Thanks,
>Kevin