> With all these messages it sounds a bit befuddled. Did you upgrade

to v.4.8.7 because you upgrade to Fb 2 or 2.1?

No, I'm still using 1.54 currently, but I plan to upgrade to FB v2.x
shortly.

I've deleted the TIB_Connection and TIB_Transaction and recreated them
and my code boils down to this:

pCur->SQL->Text = "Select USER_ID from USERS where
USER_NAME=:USER_NAME and PW=:PW";

pCur->Prepare();

TIB_Column * pColFP = pCur->FindParam( "USER_NAME");
TIB_Column * pColPBN = pCur->ParamByName("USER_NAME");

FindParam returns a column, but ParamByName returns NULL.

Creating another app and pasting in the code works, I just cannot find
out why it's failing here.