Error 3163 when doing a select

Using VB 6.0, SQLServer 2000

set myRS = databaseObj.OpenRecordSet("select * from myTable where rowID = 5", 4, 64)

causes error #3163

The above lines works with many, many other queries, but fails on this select.  Queries to other tables succeed.  Doing the same 'problematic' select statement in Query Analyzer has no problems.

The results for searches I have done for this error all talk about insert or updates.

Any ideas what is going on here?