I wonder whether in Delphi calling
Query1.Unprepare;
implicitly closes Query1, if it was previously active. Such that e.g. calling Next on it will fail.
You might say, just go ahead and try but I did on a 64-bit Windows 7 system and had all sort of problems with it until finally my BDE Administrator seems to be completely broken. So I decided to just ask this questions before I start to find out, how I can get BDE running on my system ;-)