[2005] Beat my sub New to death. Need help.

I've written a custom control. I handle all of the painting etc. No composite or user controls. I set the width in the constructor because almost everything else is based on the width of the control. That works fine if I create the control using code. But if I drop the control on a form a design time, everything is fine even through resizing the control at design time. However, when I then run the program, the control reverts to the size that is set in the constructor. I can set a new size in the properties window or I can drag and resize, but it always returns to the original size when ran because of the width being set in the constructor. I've tried to find a way around this but can't figure it out. Any ideas?