Docked panel exceeds width of form

I have a large and complex form which works as a wizard. It worked well during a long sequence of development but has just started having oddly.
There is a top panel for instructions. This should be docked to the top. There is also a panel docked to the bottom with navigation buttons. A third panel is selected at run-time according to the wizard step and its Dock property set to Fill.
In design view I have set the form width to 600, as it will be at run time. I often have it much wider while working on it.
At run time the docked panels do not reflect the size of the form. A horizontal scroll-bar appears in order to give access to the whole panel which is much wider than the form.
To investigate this I set all panels to Dock.None and then just looked at the settings for the top panel. There are a couple of labels in the panel so I set their dock to None as well.
I set the top panel's Dock property to None, set its width to 500, brought it to the front and then set dock to top. On the design surface it looks docked to the top and left but to the right the panel extends beyond the form and its Width is shown as 1488!
At run time all docked panels are exhibiting a width of 1488 while the form they are supposedly docked to is 600 wide.
I have un-docked all panels and searched the designer for the number 1488 but it is nowhere. I presume it comes from some previous stage of design work but cannot find where.
What have I done wrong or overlooked? Why is setting Dock not respecting the size of the form.
Mike VE

Here is a screenshot of the bottom panel with dock set to None.
The screen width is set to 600. The scroll bar at the bottom of the form indicates that the full design width if much more so I can lay out all the wizard panels side by side.
In the second screenshot you can see that the bottom panel's Dock property has been set to Bottom and that its width, indicated by the dotted line far exceeds the width of the form.
Mike VE
Wierd...But I think you are designing Winforms application, you'd better ask in this forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=winforms
Best Regards,
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