[Cableguy]

If you are drawing in forelayer all objects are drawn over, like if we had a tranparent sheet were we drew... all controls are bound to the forms layer and therefore have the forms backgroung, as it happend in your attemp to use an imagebutton...

So I would suggest that you drew all grafical inputs in forelayer and all the info bits in the forms layer, that should do what you want to achieve...