Value of TEXT field disappears when read more than once

Hello,
We are having a strange problem.
We have Windows 2000, Visual Basic 6.0 (SP 6), MySql 4.0, MyODBC 3.51.09, ADO 
2.6

In one the cases when we read a value of a TEXT column of MySql table, it 
disappears after
the first show. 

I had seen one similar post by Adam Milazzo on 9 April 2004.
But no replies.

Adam, could you solve the problem??

Or is it a bug in MyODBC.

I tried using MyODBC 2.50 and there is no such problem.

But I thought we should use a newer stable version rather than the old one.

Please help

Thanks and Regards
Ranjit Singh Sandhu