Animation control and Modal dialogs

Hi all.
I'm trying a pretty simple thing: show a modal dialog with an animation (AVI
file) playing on it.
- First problem, I couldn't find any native .net windows form control to do
that (at least not part of the original framework)
Question: Is there anything simialr in the .net toolbox?

- Fine, then I decided to use the good old activeX control "Microsoft
Animation Control". I put it in my toolbox then dragged to my form.
I wrote the following code:
Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
With AxAnimation1
.Open("C:\myfolder\myAnimation.avi")
.Play()
End With
End Sub

If I show the form modeless, it works perfectly. But if I show it modally,
then the animation does not show up.
Questions:
* Do I have to do something extra?
* Is this a known bug/limitation ?
* Can I fix/hack it ?

For now I made my form TopMost=True and disabled all the other forms but
this is less than ideal for me because it shown in front of all the other
applications windows as well. I need it to be the foremost form solely in my
application.

Thanks a lot.

TJ!