>Randy,
>
>Interesting reading.
>I found that I had to change the disabled background colour to white so that my caption would not 'break up' when the control was disabled.

You don't need to change it to white, you can change it to just about any color but black. You can change it to *almost* black by setting it to RGB(0,0,1). ("It" being the DisabledForeColor)