i want floating windows not to appear on top of the form they were floated from.  In case anyone cares i've hacked around it by clearing out the owner property of the parent form when the control is floating like this :

               Form f = FindForm();
               if (f != null)
               {
                  f.Owner = null;
               }

i'm sure this will come back to haunt me somehow. I've also played around with showing the real form caption and removing the floating panel caption so it looks like a real window. Goofy stuff like this:

                  f.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.Sizable;
                  f.ControlBox = true;
                  f.MaximizeBox = true;
                  f.MinimizeBox = true;
                  f.SizeGripStyle = SizeGripStyle.Show;
                  DockMananger.SetCaptionVisible(this, false);

Bill