Getting a column description

Hi. I am running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and am wanting to know if it is possible to get the text out of the Description field. I thought ResultSetMetaData.getColumnLabel(int id) would work but it keeps on returning the column name. Am I looking in the wrong spot? Is it even possible to retrieve this data?
Thanks for the help.
Ben

I don't think I made myself clear enough. When designing a table, at the bottom of the page there is a text field entitled "Description" that allows you to enter a text description of the object. I was told a while ago that you can extract this information from the DB using the getColumnLabel(x), however this is returning the column name (the same value as getColumnName(x)). What you have suggested returns the type name which in my case is varchar. So far I have tried
ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery(......);
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
out.print(rsmd.getColumnName(x));
out.print(rsmd.getColumnLabel(x));
out.print(rsmd.getColumnTypeName(x));
Thanks,
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