>Oh well, just one little thing today. I have a grid where I change values by clicking on cells. The first time I click on a column everything in the column shifts down a few pixels. (As if the text in one cell bumps into the next cell.)

I just solved this in a grid filled with custom controls by setting grid.highlightrow to .F.

>One of the things that confuses me about grids is if and when column properties are applied to the contained object. For instance if I set the BackColor property of the column it doesn't carry over to the textbox even when TextBox.BackColor is set to default.

To use the BackColor or the column I have set the control.BackStyle to Transparent.

Hope this helps