3.5 grapple question

[Eldariel]

No, you can't.

Emphasis mine.

If you can only do it before you make attack rolls... And grapple checks aren't attack rolls? You can't do it before grapple checks.

You can do one attack roll and use the remaining iteratives for grapple-checks just fine though. Also, "before making attack rolls" can be read as a clarification that you can't do that after making attacks without forbidding doing it without doing any attacks. Either way, it doesn't matter - point is, Grapple-check definitions and the checks themselves suck.