I'm trying to create a second bar at the top of the screen to house the cpu, memory, and diskspace monitors, along with winamp controls.

But how do I have it like the taskbar, so that it's always on top, but never covering up?

Such as when you maximize an IExplorer window, it will automaticly go all the way down to the taskbar, but not any farther, I want this to happen with the top 'taskbar' so to speak so it's always viewable, but nothing underneth it.