The @@CURSOR_ROWS can return a negative number for a static cursor under some circumstances. See @@CURSOR_ROWS in BOL for details.
A usual cursor loop has following structure

FETCH NEXT ... 
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
...
FETCH NEXT ... 
END

Anyway, I don't see from your code why do you need a cursor in the first place.

>I figured it out, had to set cursor as static.
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>Using sql 2000
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>I'm trying to do a query I'm working in QA. When I get set the @tiDocs variable to @@Cursor_rows, it return -1. If I just run the query by itself, I get 148 records. What am I missing?
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