>I can't find where this has been covered, so permit me to rehash. I know how to highlight the current grid row, but I want it to conform to whatever strange colors the user has chosen for his desktop. Remembering a tip from UT, I naturally steal the properties from a visible (if available) or invisible listbox or combobox. Being a little lazy for this example, I am using the Grid's tag property to store the current record number, in event AfterRowColChange.

Not quite sure why you're doing all this?? To pick up the user's default highlight colors, you can just use something like, for current recordsource:
In afterrowcolchange:

thisform.recno = recno()

this.SetAll("DynamicBackColor",;
"IIF(recno()=thisform.recno,;
  thisform.colorb,;
  '')", "Column") 
this.SetAll("DynamicForeColor",;
"IIF(recno()=thisform.recno,;
  thisform.colorf,;
  '')", "Column") 

Just pick up thisform.colorf and b from any textbox selectedfore/back colors that use default colors...