I have been having database corruption problems with a Firebird 2.0.5 database on Windows 2008 32-bit. I checked the forced writes setting and forced writes were disabled. I says to myself I says, AHA this is the problem. So I use gfix to enabled forced writes. I check that there were enabled using gstat. Everything looks good. If I wait a couple of seconds and check using gstat again, forced writes are once more disabled.

That the heck is going on? We certainly don't have any processes that are disabling forced writes.