> Sasha,
>
> This is on whole new machine with no previous Firebird installations.
> it is Windows Server 2008, and I am logged on directly. . But I had the
> same problem on some remote Server 2003 machines with Firebird 2.0. I
> never solved the problem, so I stayed with Firebird 1.5 on those
> machines.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle

have you installed the C Runtime libraries?
Alan