He Dave,
as other wrote, there should be an encoding problem with Windows 2000.
My Environment:
Windows 2000 internal version: 5.0.2195; SP 2
Germal locale
PostgreSQL: 8.0.3
ODBC driver: 8.00.01.01 (5. March 2005)
OK, I'll say this again - have you tried 08.01.0003? I have little time to help, and I'm not going to chase bugs that might easily have been fixed already in newer versions of the driver than you are running.
No MDAC
The ODBC Driver manager is part of MDAC - you cannot use ODBC on Windows without it. If you are running the default version that comes with Windows 2000, then you should try upgrading to the latest (which is what works for me on XP)
Regards, Dave.