We are trying to set-up a link server in SQL Server 2000 to QBES 8.0

We have read through many of the posted articles and have tried most solutions.

We can run the query
SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(QODBC, 'SELECT * FROM HOST unoptimized')
It returns a row.

If we take the unoptimized off, it returns no rows.

We're logged onto the server as administrator

We have run the optimizer ReloadAllData several times.
With the %UserProfile%\QODBC Driver for... path
, c:\QODBC Driver for ..., D:\QODBC Driver for ... with the same results.
We've Deleted the .OPT file and rebuilt from scratch.
We have made every folder on c: and d: read/write (full control) temporarily
for every user to get this to work, with no success.

It can't be this hard to get the linked server working.<