When putting user controls in panels on a form, sometimes the designer just
loses
them.  Many people have reported this issue.  The potential causes people
speculated were the control was not accessible or was changed in the project
at runtime so the designer could not read it.  We eliminated those
possibilities by using a purbinary reference and the control was still lost
on ocassion.

The only thing we could do was move code out of initialize component so the
designer would stop dropping the control.

Any ideas what is going on and how to stop this it has made dealing with
these particular forms  a pain since we can't use the designer with the
controls.

Thanks,
Dave