:: One possibility is that your "couple thousand things a day"
:: are all being executed by way of a single Autocommit
:: transaction and the transaction state bitmap (TSB) is

Only selects are not in explicit transactions - but doesn't FB just wrap
each one individually then?

And if this is not the case how do I change it to warp each one
automatically? And if this is whats the problem, wouldn't it be better to
return an error to my connection instead of crashing the WHOLE DB server????