> Not the interbase one, but rather the version of gds32.dll created by
> the Firebird Installer or by instclient.exe. Basically it is the same
> as fbclient.dll, but it tricks the IBX components into connecting
> happily to Firebird.

Adam,
the gds versioning to which you refer is not required by the IBX components
at runtime. It's only checked by the designtime packages during IDE load.
IBX based applications will run fine against fbclient renamed to gds32.dll
without the tricky versioning. IBX design time packages can also be changed
(source) to ignore the version check during load.
alan