You may want to take a look at the System.Threading.Timer class
instead.  This is a thread-safe representation of a timer and differs
from the Timers namespace in a couple of ways.  First the constructor
allows you to specify when the first timer should fire (which you want
to fire right away) and then to specify an interval for how often it
should fire after the first one.
Secondly, instead of using events and event handlers, you are simply
able to specify a callback function.
Hope this helps
Rob Vretenar [imason inc.]