>I seem to recall that if I had an unbound grid on a form, the grid would >use a table opened by the DE of the form as its RecordSource. I had to set >the RecordSource of this grid to [ empty string ] in the form init so the >form and the "serach results" grid would properly display nothing when the >form was first opened. Once there were search results, I would then bind >the grid to that results cursor. Is this similar to what you are doing?

Exactly, but I am still getting a refresh error with the empty string.