Thanks. I removed the extra gds32.dll files and all is better.

- Lou
u.masotti wrote:
>> [40530000] C:\Program Files\CodeGear\Delphi for PHP\1.0\gds32.dll
>> 8.1.0.257 - WI-V8.1.0.257
>> InterBase Server
>>
> Search everywhere in your system and vcl directories for GDS32.DLL and
> remove unneeded. Leave only in SYSTEM32 and in Firebird dir.
> Reinstall only fbclient:
>
> - Open command windows
> - change to dir c:/Program files/Firebird/Firebird_1_5/bin (or
> whichever dir you did install FB)
> - run these two commands:
>
> - instclient i -f f
> - instclient i -f g
>
> From instclient help:
>> Version information and shared library counts are handled
>> automatically. You may provide the -f[orce] option to override
>> version checks.
>>
>> Please, note that if you -f[orce] the installation, you might have
>> to reboot the machine in order to finalize the copy and you might
>> break some other Firebird or InterBase(R) version on the system.
>>
>
>