jQuery Grid Plugin – jqGrid

I am working with MVC4 and the latest version of jqGrid. I see that when I step into the DataRequested method that right before calling the DataBind method on my gridModel.Grid the PagerSettings.PageSize is set to 100, then immediately following the DataBind method that value is now 10. I tried both DataBind methods with the same result. 

Ideally what I would like to do is preserve the PageSize and set the CurrentPage to whatever page I want displayed but the CurrentPage is always 1. Is there another way to set the PageSize (and/or CurrentPage) so that it's not blown away from the dataBind method? It seems that jqGrid is properly recognizing the expected page size when I select a different option in the page size drop down although I don't have code to handle that in my controller. Is this a known bug or another way to set these values? Thanks in advance.