the way i look at it, is that if your going to make a file for a saved
game, dont save it in as an ini file, you can make up your own
like "save.me" could be a file, that way the user wont be able to
cheat by changing things in the ini file, well, they'll be able to
change them in the "save.me" file, but it'll be harder

well, keypress and keydown dont work for you because you said,
you have textboxes, pictures, and frames on your form, and thats
taking the focus away from the form, and the only way keypress
and keydown work is when they have the focus...