Thanks, Helen for your insight into why it may have seemed to work with
the full server but not the embedded.

I will pursue your suggestions. I didn't know about instclient.exe. BTW,
I'm using IBO, not the most recent. I think about 4.5.

Somehow, I started to get the error when running full server when I had
changed over to using the local gds32.dll, but in my confusion left the
full server still on. I had thought I managed to get the embedded
working with the Delphi IDE, which was not the case. Once getting the
error, I saw the issue right away, and yes, it was an error in
assignment to a parameter in the SQL (one was a select the other delete).

So, I can stop scratching my head and leave what hair I have, alone.

Chuck