Another sticky wicket ,as I've just figured out, is that when you change stuff in your control  and add it to your toolbox what I have been doing (which takes ages) is to resert the toolbox and the re-add the modified control.

No Good.

So the reason I have not been seeing the changes I made was that it was using the older version  - despite showing the newer dll version number in the "CustomizeToolbox" dialog.

You simply need to close the solution and then reopen it .... refresh won't work  either.

Never mind - sorted now.

Can get on and pretty it all up a bit now.

(( And now another problem - I seem to have lost my margins from my Normal style in Outlook Express - oooohhhh .... does it never end ? ))