Objective, SQL Server 2005 and exporting data using **bcp**
Right.

It would appear that free-form text fields in several rows (and varied columns) in two of the tables had embedded newline/carriage return characters, which then messed up the field-count (obviously).

I now am just exporting 5 (and 3, respectively) columns from those tables, and the problem is gone away.  Feeling kind of silly after this.

Thanks everyone for trying to help.