"Hover effect" using picture box control?

Guys, a little help here? I'm trying to make an application that has "button hover" effects, similar to the ones that you normally see in the web. This is how I coded mine:

Code:

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Public Class frmModeSelect

    Private Sub pcbUserKiosk_MouseHover(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles pcbUserKiosk.MouseHover
        pcbUserKiosk.BackgroundImage = My.Resources.glow_cat
    End Sub

    Private Sub pcbUserKiosk_MouseLeave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles pcbUserKiosk.MouseLeave
        pcbUserKiosk.BackgroundImage = Nothing
    End Sub

End Class

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pcbUserKiosk by the way is a PictureBox control. You can say that my application is image-heavy, but I really, really want to do this. Anyway, the hover image displays just fine when you hover over the control, but there seems to be a one second lag time. I was wondering how I can eliminate this lag time when the user hovers over the control. What I did, you see, is that there is a background image on the background of the form, and there are a bunch of PictureBoxes on top of the "buttons" in the background image, that would load the hover image. Is this the right way to do it?

Another thing, how can I "reposition" or show which part of an image is shown in the PictureBox control (kindly refer to the second attachment). To better illustrate it, I want the hover and normal states of the "button" in one PNG image, and I want to "reposition"/move the position of the image to the x & y coordinates of the hover state in that image when the user hovers over the control. And can anyone also point me to threads that teach how to skin a form? As usual, thanks.

Well the obvious way to avoid the lag would be to use the MouseEnter event rather than the Hover which, by definition, has to pause to decide that you are in fact 'hovering'. I don't fully understand the intent or purpose of the varying position but you could presumably achieve this using the margins and padding properties or simply drawing a new bitmap over the control. For form skinning see http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...=1#post4222795