>If you use different sources for the grid and for the form's controls, then you need to search for the right record yourself when you navigate through the grid, e.g. assuming grid's recordSource is vMain with PK as Primary field and PK is the primary field in the MainTable
>

>if seek('vMain.PK', 'MainTable','PK')
>   * this should always happen
>    thisform.refresh()
>else
>   * we have record in a view which is not in the main table - investigate why
>endif

soo
i'm going to have to get add new keys to use as primary since my regular keys apprantly arent pulling it off