Jason,

> Switching to IBO (Since that's a popular answer to most any problem that's
> not strictly SQL) is a possibility, if I can prove that it's solved this
> sort of thing before. IE we don't want to take the time to write another
> compatiblity layer using the IBO components unless we know, or have a strong
> suspicion, that it will fix the problem. But, given that the problem
> happens using both BDE and IBX components, I have my doubts about IBO fixing
> the problem.

You can try easily.

Go ahead and try IB_SQL - it's free.
http://www.ibobjects.com/ibo_ib_sql.html

Just connect to your database, browse it (button with the glasses),
locate the table, enter no search criteria in the field search edits
(just click in one of these editfields and press enter) and open it.

Now you can browse the whole table.

Does your problem occur then, too?

Luc.