>Thanks for the explaination. It's really not making too much sense to me right now. I'll have my co-worker investigate your comments and see if what you are saying sheds some light on the issue.

Yes, do that ... I'm sure there's some way to make the System.Drawing.Color work with a DefaultValue attribute, perhaps someone here might know. I don't have trouble with the DefaultValue attribute for any other Properties that I've tried it with. Perhaps the problem is because System.Drawing.Color is a Struct, but I really don't know.

~~Bonnie