>Here is what I did:
>
>Button that updates data and redisplays the grid:
> - Replace stmts on fields needing modified
> - ran SQL Stmt (same one in RowSource for grid)
> - called thisform.grid1.init (intending to call the commands that reset the fore/back-ground colors based on new data)
>
>All I get though is a blank grid - not even gridlines.
>
>Is there a quick solution without changing to an updateable cursor, etc?

Two solutions.

First, which I don't like

myGrid.RecordSource =""
myQuery
myGrid.RecordSource = query

Another solution is to use Safe Select approach. This solution I used in my forms.

See it described at http://weblogs.foxite.com/andykramek/archive/2005/03/19/174.aspx

In our projects we used yet another approach of saving and restoring the grid. I don't have this code here right now (we incorporated these methods into our grid class).