> Also, I should probably send this to ibsupport, but while I have
> you, is it still true in Firebird that one cannot have a parameter
> to a stored procedure that is a blob? Ugh.

As far as I know this is true at least according to the IB 6.0
Language Reference (and I think this holds for Firebird 1.0). But ask
in IB-Support to be sure, maybe they have fixed this issue in 1.5.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy