> It was the version that was available with the open source version
> of Interbase. which was over 3 years ago... <G>

Quite strange, if I remember correctly, it did not support escaped call
syntax...

> Thanks for the "slap-up-the-side-of-the-head"...<G>

Well... that was not meant, just a tip where the problem can be :-)

> BTW.. the change worked as expected..

Can you try JayBird 2.0 RC3a with executeQuery(), and if you get your error,
could your post your test case here. We need this to be sure that escaped
syntax parser does not have this bug.

Roman