Well building a sample app to demonstrate ended up being a good process for this.  I made an app to send to you but it worked and didnt fail.  Then I tested the issue in our app and it worked.  Another programmer had been working on this issue and it fails on his computer.  My sample app, compiled on his computer, worked.  

I then had him copy my IBObjects folder over to his computer and when he recompiled it worked.  We are using 5.10.1 but a version we have patched ourselves to fix bugs that occur because we using Delphi 5 and it doesn't support bigint etc.  

If you have Delphi Library paths pointing to the IBO source code directories and the IBO packages also installed, is it possible for the components on the forms to have different IBO code than the same components used purely from source code and not on DFMs?  I'm wondering if maybe after I made my patch to IBO on his computer maybe I didn't recompile the "Release" packages installed to the pallette and maybe on my computer I did recompile them.