R help - Sep 2008 - Error results from MS Access via RODBC

I have an MS Access database with one table and one column holding rep(1:10)

I use:

library(RODBC)
channel <- odbcConnect("test")
sqlQuery(channel, paste("SELECT col FROM tblTest"),
believeNRows=FALSE)

and get: 
 49
 50
 51
 52
 53
 54
 55
 56
 57
 12337

What? The above should, of course, read:
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10

I tried the 'odbcQuery' / 'sqlGetResults' dance. But no love...
From a console, 'mdb-sql' and 'isql' gives correct output, so
the odbc seems to be working OK. Text columns show up fine when I select them
with the above RODBC procedure. I've fiddled with pretty much all the
options that go with 'sqlQuery' with the same output every time.

I've compacted and repaired the database. I've created other mdb's,
with the same result. When I connect to other DB's via RODBC, like MySQL,
data is correct...

What am I missing?

Some output:

--------------------------
~# dpkg -l libmdb* mdbtools

ii libmdbodbc 0.5.99.0.6pre1.0.20 MDB tools ODBC module
ii libmdbtools 0.5.99.0.6pre1.0.20 mdbtools libraries
ii mdbtools 0.5.99.0.6pre1.0.20 JET / MS Access database (MDB) tools
--------------------------
~# mdb-ver db.mdb

 JET4
--------------------------
R> odbcGetInfo(channel)

 DBMS_Name ""
 DBMS_Ver ""
 Driver_ODBC_Ver ""
 Data_Source_Name "test"
 Driver_Name "test"
 Driver_Ver "test"
 ODBC_Ver "03.52"
 Server_Name "03.52"
--------------------------
R> version

platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch: i486
os: linux-gnu
system: i486, linux-gnu
status
major: 2
minor: 7.2
year: 2008
month: 08
day: 25
svn rev: 46428
language: R
version.string R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
--------------------------
R> sessionInfo()

R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) 
i486-pc-linux-gnu 

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base     

other attached packages:
[1] RODBC_1.2-3