Noticed this tutorial in the VBWire News section of the vbforums site: http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usin.../wpfintro6.htm
and after reading it the first thing I thought was why on earth would you use a timer to animate something in WPF... so I commented on the article and low and behold, a week later this article appears http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2009/...-animation.htm

So if anyone was going to follow the first article when trying to animate something in WPF... DONT!