Encryption of this sort of data should be a given anyway. Here's a good link:

http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/sql-server-2005-database-encryption-step-by-step.aspx

You can do a string manipulation of the decrypted data - in a...

It made no difference? Hmmm... It should do. I've just run exactly your query with the language set to each of the two options, English or British English,...

Change the Default language setting, of the account used to run the queries, to "British English".

Thanks very much.  That worked great!

Much appreciated.