Well, this one was caused by myself.  I have an event that fires that clears the row of the grid when a certain cell doesn't have a value.  The event was firing when the value was being entered and I wasn't catching it...  Thanks guys for your help.

My guess is that the SERVICE_ID fields is not editable on the data source. By the name, it appears that it might be a primary key. 

                grid.Rows[i].Cells[SERVICE_ID].SetValue(item.ID, false);            //Set the service ID value for later lookup.

                grid.Rows[i].Cells[SERVICE_NAME].SetValue(item.ServiceName, false);

I can setvalue for service name, but not for serviceID.   The grid is editable. 

 I look through the properties and see the "originalvalue" now holds my value.  However, it's never reflected on the grid or in the actual value property.

Please help, I am about to pull my hair out.