Newbie? - help inserting into firebird1.0

hi. i'm running: php4, firebird 1.0, and IIS all on win2k. i'm just getting started with php and firebird, so please forgive me if the error is obvious. i hunted around for examples, the best of which i've found btw is at http://www.ibphoenix.com/ibp_howto1.html - thought i did this right, i have no trouble selecting from the database but inserting is giving me some grief... my table: RECREATE TABLE BUGS ( BUG_ID INTEGER NOT NULL, APP VARCHAR( 25) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, APP_VERSION DECIMAL( 3, 2), BUILD VARCHAR( 5) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, OS VARCHAR( 25) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, SEVERITY VARCHAR( 25) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, BUG_PRIORITY VARCHAR( 5) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, BUG_STATE VARCHAR( 10) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, SB_USER VARCHAR( 25) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, STEPS VARCHAR( 500) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, EXPECTED VARCHAR( 500) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, OBSERVED VARCHAR( 500) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, OPENED DATE, CLOSED DATE, HYPOTHESIS VARCHAR( 500) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, SOLUTION VARCHAR( 500) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE, STATUS VARCHAR( 15) CHARACTER SET NONE COLLATE NONE ) and then the add_issue.php <? $conn=ibase_connect ("ipaddress:c:\\Firebird\\data\\slugBug.gdb", "SYSDBA", "XXXX"); if (!$conn) { echo "Acess Denied!<br>"; exit; } $query="insert into BUGS (APP, APP_VERSION, BUILD, OS, SEVERITY, BUG_PRIORITY, BUG_STATE, SB_USER, STEPS, EXPECTED, OBSERVED, STATUS, OPENED) values ("$txtApp","$numVersion","$txtBuild","$txtOs", "$frmSeverity", "$numPriority", "$txtState", "$txtUser", "$txtSteps", "$txtExpected", "$txtObserved", "$frmStatus", "NOW");"; $result=ibase_query($conn,$query); if (!$result) { echo "Error. Can't insert the record with the query: $query! $back"; exit; } echo "Record saved. $back"; ibase_close($conn); ?> finally, the error message: Warning: InterBase: Dynamic SQL Error SQL error code = -104 Token unknown - line 3, char 47 , in C:\Inetpub\dev_root\slugbug\issue_send2.php on line 18 Error. Can't insert the record with the query: insert into BUGS (APP, APP_VERSION, BUILD, OS, SEVERITY, BUG_PRIORITY, BUG_STATE, SB_USER, STEPS, EXPECTED, OBSERVED, STATUS, OPENED) values (games/software,1.0,rc1,win2000, , 5, , jds, [PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB], [PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB], [PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB][PHP-DB]', , NOW);! ---do i need to do some string conversion here? or the INSERT statement wrong? a combination of the two? i'm currently RingTFM, but any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA! jon-david