Howard, in your last example I guess I'm not following you or it's broken. I get this back as the return for KiXtart 4.52RC1

True - "10.0.1.123" < "10.0.1.9"
True - "10.0.1.123" > "10.0.1.9"
True - "10.0.1.123" = "10.0.1.9"