>>>I want to present a listbox and have the focus(highlighted) on a certain record. However I want that record to appear in the middle of the listbox. For some reason it appears at the bottom of the visible listbox by default.
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>>Where in the form you're setting ListBox.Selected[i] = .t. ?
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>In the init event. Simply put, I want the highlight to occur in the middle of the listbox.

I don't remember details, but there were some quirks with listboxes my former colleague Mike Asherman found. Perhaps you can not do this in Init. Try form's Activate for now, I may try to look at home at our classes for this.