>It's not quite the same thing. Properties SelectedForeColor and SelectBackColor are distinct from SelectedItemForeColor and SelectedItemBackColor, and they may, in fact, have different values. It depends, again, on what the user has set in the Windows Control Panel, especially if the user is running something like the Windows Themes pack. So, I am trying to make the grid look like the specific settings from Windows for SelectedItem properties.

Sorry, I've never seen this before. All the schemes I checked have the same color used for all Selected Items...If it's only a rare exception, I wouldn't worry about it too much...users with 3rd party color schemes may well be used to different behavior in other apps, too.