:: DLLs are runtime linked libraries. They are not run as applications.
:: Two applications running the same dll are still two applications.
:: Think of them as inserting code into those applications at runtime

Yes, believe me I know all this. That's not the issue - the issue is how
fbembed is impelmented, if it uses interthread or IPC among itself.

:: and talk to it. Unfortunately, multiple processes accessing the same
:: embedded db is not going to work.

This is what I suspected, I just wanted to verify.