>Well, I feel that it's kinda hokie and I don't know the implications yet, but....
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>The problem was that .timeraction() (which calls shellrequerymainviewalias()) was not firing upon the first click of the grid. So what I did was in the SetFocus method of the grid I check .ilFirstTime property. If this property is .T. then I call .timeraction() of the timer object manually. This works fine for now (until I get an unrecoverable error right?lol)

Why not just call ShellRequeryMainViewAlias directly from the SetFocus? Is there other code in the TimerAction that needs to fire for you?