Thanks for the advise. I sincerely appreciate it. In my defense, this Delphi application has just shy of 900,000 lines of my code. The Data Module alone has 115 TIBCQueries. As you might imagine, they all successfully execute Insert, Post, Open, and Close commands more times than I can count. None of them require an apostrophe from my code. Naturally, that doesn't mean the component doesn't have a syntax error somewhere, but one would think that would show up in one of the other 114 components. 

I half-way expected to be told to stop bothering this group because I mentioned Delphi. I also expect to be told the same thing by folks in Delphi groups because I mentioned Firebird. I just thought there might be fewer Firebird users in a Delphi group and more Delphi users in a Firebird group. I didn't mean to imply that this was a Firebird problem. I knew it wasn't. I only hoped that some other Delphi/Firebird user might have solved this problem. I also know that it is important to keep inappropriate messages out of the group. Message received. I'll go away.:-)