>I 99% answered my own question
>

>select top 1;
>      ident_seed('mytable'),;
>      ident_incr('mytable'),;
>      identitycol ;
>     FROM mytable
>

>
>Row 1, col 1 of my result set is indenty seed.
>Row 1, col 2 of my result set is indentity increment.
>Row 1, col 3 of my result set does not contain the answer: The identity name is the NAME of column 3, not the contents.
>
>The damn thing is doing exactly what I told it to, instead of reading my mind and doing what I want it to <g>.
>
>So what is the syntax to get that identity column name into the result set, rather than just the name of a column?

This might help alittle. You can get a result set of all identity columns in your table using the following:

select sysobjects.name,syscolumns.* from sysobjects inner join syscolumns
   on syscolumns.id = sysobjects.id where syscolumns.autoval is NOT NULL and 
   sysobjects.name = 'mytablename'