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

What do you mean by "refresh error". Can you post the code around and where the error is occuring as well as the error message?