Using OPENQUERY against a linked server in SSIS?

I'm trying something that should be simple. I want to set up a data refresh package using the SSIS Import and Export Wizard.
My source is Sage's MAS200 which is written on top of the ProvideX "DB" (a DBA's nightmare). Unfortunately, there is NO ProvideX ODBC driver that exposes column names although the tables names ARE available.
I'm forced to create a linked server and then use OPENQUERY to get at the data. So, something like SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(LINKEDTABLE, 'SELCT * FROM AR_Division') works fine.
Now I'm trying to build an SSIS package. I'm using the .Net Framework Data Provider for ODBC to get to the source data and it works just as I've explained above. It shows me the tables but gives me know mapping information because it doesn't show me the columns.
So, I try the query approach, but the OPENQUERY can't be parsed.
Do any of you have any ideas?

If the query doesn't return valid metadata, then you won't be able to use it in the data flow.
Try this: Use the OPENQUERY in an Execute SQL task to populate a working table on the SQL Server side - something like :
Code Snippet
SELECT * INTO MyWorkingTable FROM OPENQUERY(LINKEDTABLE, 'SELCT * FROM AR_Division')
Then use a data flow to read the information from the working table and do any necessary transformations on it.
Thanks for this suggestion.  I was looking for help, with a similar issue and found this.
-Al H

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    inner JOIN linknametooracledb."M01Tab06_Ord"
    Has nothing to do with Oracle, but accesses a table in the schema linknametooracledb.
    I think to help dmcm, you need a really good crystal ball - at least as long he/she does not share the actual code.
    Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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