At 08:07 3/10/2008, you wrote:

>Helen and all,
>
>I'm logged in directly as Administrator, sitting at the console. I've tried all these variations with single and doulble quotes with hosts and no hosts. The errors are identical.
>
>These scripts work on 6 other servers via RDT (windows 2003), but only with Firebird 1.5, but not Firebird 2.0. I have literally hundreds of scripts.
>
>FlameRobin accepts SYSDBA/masterkey, so it seems that they are valid.

Double-quotes are not valid for string arguments in SQL.

./heLen