Ok, so I'm just a little lost.

I've renamed firebirds embedded server dll to gds32.dll and I've
placed it in the same folder as my executable. I've specified the
path to the database, I've set the user to sysdba and provided my
sysdba password (I already know I don't really need to) and I keep
getting database unavailable.

Has anyone successfully used the embedded dll with IBO and if so what
steps, besides the ones already listed, do I need to take to get it
to work correctly?

Ryan.