How do I make my HTA using group policy to always be on top of the task bar

Ok, long story short, my project of the day is to come up with a HTA (My choice due to the click images etc), that will be pushed out via group policy .. and that when the clients' computer users log into their laptop and b4 they see their
desktop   the HTA application is triggered FULL Screen.
right now what happens is the taskbar shows.. which freaks out management... they want to HTA Page to be completely covering the screen and NO Taskbar please.... ( as in NO ANCHOVIES PLEASE Song reference) .. but seriously
how do I have the HTA full screen over the TOP of the taskbar....
right now I have this and it isn't over the taskbar:
<hta:application
   showintaskbar = "no"
   caption = "no"
   border = "thick"
   contextmenu = "yes"
   icon = "path_to_icon.ico"
   innerborder = "no"
   scroll = "no"
   singleinstance = "yes"
   resizable = "no"
   windowState = "maximize"
>

First of all, copying and pasting your script into notepad, saving it as an HTA, and running it covered my taskbar. Even so, it is obviously not working in your environment. Typically, and as you've come to see, maximized applications do not cover the taskbar.
I considered that you could run a registry command to auto-hide the taskbar when the HTA opened and then do the opposite in reverse, but this could get messy depending on how the HTA is closed. With a button press there would be no problem, but there's several
ways to close an HTA and I'm not sure if you could catch them all - especially if mshta was forced closed from the Task Manager.
What you could do is run some code inside the onLoad subroutine that obtains the screen's resolution (using WMI) and then resizes the HTA accordingly. Take a look at the answer on this forum post:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/ac3b41b8-b563-4c8e-b50a-39952c442254/how-to-detect-screen-dpi-and-modify-hta-form-size-accordingly?forum=ITCG
Edit: Corrected URL

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