Jason,

> I am just
> about ready to hack the class to force it to behave or beef up the
> TIB_Ledger control so that I can have full control over what my grid does.

go with the ledger, Jason.
your dataset does not descend from TDataSet, your data source is not a
TDataSource, why should we bother about TCustomGrid?
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