[techtalk] gnome panel --- on top???

[Desire`e]

What should be a simple tick box option has turned into a huge mystery
to me.
For ages now I have been trying to get the gnome panel(taskbar) to stay
on top.
Ive read the panel documentation,ive been to the gnome site and read the
faq,
ive perused every possible setting under everypossible mouse button and
term command but i'll be damned if i can get the bloody thing to stay on
top of programs.
even if you have the hide arrowws visible and have the panel hidden then
open it it still goes behind whatever you have on the screen portion it
occuoies.
the kde panel manages to stay on top!!!
has anyone managed to get it to stay on top???
Im sure there was a setting onece in the gnome early days...but!!!
im using mandrake 7.2
with gnome-helix.

any ideas would be most thankfully tried!!!


yours,
Desire`e