well it seems that your post, maciep, did make me re-look at my code and modify it a little to the following:

Code:
$ConnDSN		= "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=test;USER=test;PASSWORD='';OPTION=3;"
$objConn 		= DBConnOpen($ConnDSN)
? "Error @ERROR:  @SERROR"
sleep 5
$sql			= "INSERT INTO computer(name) VALUES('testcomputer')"

DBExecuteSQL($objConn,$sql)
? "Error @ERROR:  @SERROR"
sleep 5

DBConnClose($objConn)
? "Error @ERROR:  @SERROR"
sleep 5


and now I get all of my @ERRORs printing out the way I wanted them to in the first place. My first error refrences not having a driver for the DB so I'll look at the previous posts on how to acquire those and install them.