Brian,

Well sonuvagun, that worked. I had tried this many times and many ways but with no sucess before. Is the 'csr' required
before my cursor name? Before I said "CREATE CURSOR Pledgers" and now I changed it to "CREATE CURSOR csrPledgers".
Was that the big difference or is there something else?
Also, I know this is going to sound wimpy, but I don't know how to add fields to a grid without using the builder. I think that I was
able to make it work once by doing what you suggested, created a table with the name and attributes of my cursor temporarily.
This is a learning experience from me, I have always gone directly off of tables before and am learning about cursors at the
suggestion of several people.

Thanks so much for your help.

Fred