>The record source is established, but the blank grid persists. Do you have any other ideas?
Where You use the Tables that is RecordSource of the Grid? If that table is not used during the Grid Init Blank Grid it is, or os there somewhere in Your form You closed (or reuse) this table?
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing normal about database guys is their tables.
