Bubble guide popup majigger

I'm going to get destroyed for that title....

Anywho, I need some sort of guidance on how to make a popup balloon message. I'm not quite sure how to explain it, but I'll give it a shot: The popups will look similar to those popups you get from the system tray, but they won't be pointing at a system tray icon - they would be pointing at a commandbutton, listbox, textbox, etc. I wan't to be able to give the user guidance through my program with the ability to turn the guidance off. Basically, when the user opens the program they'll see that balloon tip appear and say something similar to "Step 1: Select a customer," then when they select a customer the balloon tip would move to, say, a listbox and popup with "Step 2: Select a shipment type."

I thought about using the balloon tip class posted in the codebank to allow for extended tooltips, but there's no way to lock it on the screen or make it popup without waiting. My only other thought is to make another window and use the SetWindowRgn function to change the shape of it with a label having the text in it.

Any better ideas?

Would this be what you want?

The effect is exactly what I'm looking for.....but with one downfall....when I enable that manifest file my form does this (see attached).

The one thing that confuses the bah heysus out of me is the fact that part of my SQL statement appears in the frame...not to mention the captions turn blue and get cut off..... (also ignore the command1 button - it's a diagnostic thing)