>OK., I'll cry "Uncle!" Which grid property controls the fore/back color of the currently selected cell?? I cant find it!

There isn't any, but there are a couple ways to do it, depending on whether you just want selected coloring or edit coloring or both. Doing an MSKB search will yield some ideas. Also, there's a bug in column dynamic properties so that they don't show up in the active cell. If that's your trouble, use text cell properties to alter the current cell color...