Nice one, thanks to both of you.  Those were all good pointers. oodmb was spot on with the slow draw setting, thats exactly what I was going for.

While I was doing trying out your suggestions I somehow closed the buttons window by accident. I tried to use the "split area" function but it refused to work after that. Is there a key-in I may have hit accidently that causes this or did I just hit a glitch somewhere? Haven't had this happen before.