>Is there a 3rd party alternative to the grid object that provides for a way to easily freeze columns. I have done a bunch of hocus pocus to make it work the way I want but I just wanted to know if there was an alterative object (and I'm not talking about a list).

Just a couple that have been mentioned, but I haven't used them:

Apex's True Grid
Video Soft's Flex Grid
DBI technologies has one (www.dbi-tech.com)

On my computer there are two MS ones, MS FlexGrid 6.0 and MS DataGrid (OLE-DB), installed.