I'm having trouble with the ListView control, which seems to size and
position its child items incorrectly under certain circumstances.
Specifically, when I recreate its ImageList, using a dynamically
created set of images (from pixel data in memory), items are actually
overlapping each other so that their text becomes unreadable.

I can't reproduce the overlap in a simple test project, but I did come
up with the following code (requiring a form with a button on it).
Click the button twice: it does the same thing each time, but the
items in the ListView get formatted differently the second time. Does
anyone understand the quirky rules behind this thing? I just want a
normal SmallIcons view where the text looks right, but my application
needs to do it dynamically.

private ListView lvw = null;

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
 lvw = new ListView();
 this.Controls.Add(lvw);
 lvw.Size = new Size(250, 100);
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
 ImageList iml = new ImageList();
 iml.ImageSize = new Size(16, 16);

 lvw.Items.Clear();

 lvw.SmallImageList = iml;
 lvw.View = View.SmallIcon;

 for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
 {
   lvw.Items.Add("Some text");
 }
}