MS-Access ODBC WOES!! non-sensical results?

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I have some (brutal) code below trying to simply test if I can get rev 2.1.2
to read data from an MS-Access table.  I'm getting NO errors opening the
DSN, NO errors on the revquerydatabase and getting a VALID cursorID.  I'm
getting 'empty' from revQueryResult (which indicates "no errors" in the
docs) yet the revnumberofrecords(cursid) is returning a -1!?!????  The docs
say that revnumberofrecords should either return a text error message or
non-negative integer!?!???

HELP!!!!!  I'm new to this and realize (and hope, actually) that I'm doing
something 'newbie'-wrong.....but what is most puzzling is that I'm getting a
negative integer from revnumberofrecords when the docs say that I'm supposed
to get either text or a non-negative integer?? (Obviously) I'm not getting
past the breakpoint to test the code below that, because my repeat loop will
go infinite with "-1 times"....that's not the code I'm worried about though.

THANKS AS ALWAYS!!

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  local titl1,art1
  put empty into field errfld
  put empty into field dispfld
  get revOpenDatabase("ODBC","odbcsongdb",,,,)
  put it into songdbid
  get revquerydatabase(songdbid,"select title,artist from songdb")
  put it into cursid
  put "cursid: " & cursid & cr into field errfld
  put "revquresult: " & revQueryResult(cursid) & cr after field errfld
  put "numrecs: " & revnumberofrecords(cursid) & cr after field errfld
  breakpoint
  if revqueryresult(cursid) is not empty then
    put revqueryresult(cursid) into field errfld
  else
    repeat for revnumberofrecords(cursid) times
      revdatabasecolumnnamed(cursid,"title",titl1)
      revdatabasecolumnnamed(cursid,"artist",art1)
      put "Title: " & titl1 & "  Artist: " & art1 & cr after field dispfld
      revmovetonextrecord cursid
    end repeat
  end if
  revclosecursor cursid
  revclosedatabase songdbid
end mouseUp