Spash screens in a Access 2003 application. How?

I have a BMP file, with the same name as the application, in the folder where the app resides. The application also has user level security.
When I click on the desktop icon to open the app, the splash screen appears for an instant before Access opens a blank full screen view with the Access menus along with the popup window to enter name and password. Doing so removes the splash screen from view.

In A97, using the same method, the splash screen and the security dialog box were both presented. Once the info was entered into the dialog box, the splash screen disappeared and the Access application was presented.

Is there a way to open Access 2003 and allow it to present a spash screen for viewing by not opening full screen?

Below are the notes I copied from A2003 help that describes the method I use.

"Create a splash screen without using a run-time option

Create a bitmap (bitmap: A picture made from a series of small dots, much like a piece of graph paper with certain squares filled in to form shapes and lines. When stored as files, bitmaps usually have the extension .bmp.) with the same name as your application and a .bmp extension. For example, if your application name is Taxes.mdb, your bitmap file name would be Taxes.bmp.

Put it in the same folder as your application.

Using Microsoft Windows Explorer, create a shortcut for your application by clicking File, pointing to New, and clicking Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, specify the path to your application. For example: "C:\My Files\Taxes.mdb". Click Next, specify a name for the shortcut, and click Finish.

When you run your application, Access looks for the bitmap, and if it finds one, uses it as a splash screen."
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