>Using ABS() on recno() in the afterrowchange event got it to work. It appears that if recno() and this.currecno are both negative, they will evaluate true in the dynamic color properties regardless of their value. This is obviously not right, is there some evironmental setting or number comparison thing I'm overlooking?

Not that I know of. Just for kicks, try placing the name of a custom grid method in the DynamicForeColor properties, and put some code in that method to compere CurRec and Recno() and return the value. This way, you can look at the comparison in thedebugger and see what is going on.