>We looked at the CListObjEdit class, but we didn't like the fact that a modal form is called as your edit form. If my understanding of a modal form is correct, then that means that the user would have to edit their entry and exit the form before they could do anything else. We didn't really want to have that kind of a limitation. Can you override the modal form setting?

uhhhh... I'm not sure, personally I would never want to override that myself. See a modal edit form is typical, and I believe a part of standard Windows Interface Guidelines. It actually makes your life easier to force the user to commit changes or bail out when you give consideration to buffering and record locking.