Preston North End threw away a two-goal lead to allow Cardiff to share the honours on a sunny afternoon watched by 11,972.
The Lilywhites have had a poor run in 2004 with only one win in 11 games and they have now got the same number of points as this time last season and have won 15, drawn 13, and lost 16, exactly the same as last season with minus one the same goal difference.
North End welcomed back Eddie Lewis, the USA international following his hernia operation and he had a left-foot shot after ten minutes saved by the Cardiff keeper after a Ricardo Fuller pass.
It was Lewis who made it 1-0 after 15 minutes when Graham Alexander from the edge of the box found Fuller and he played a right-foot pass from the mid penalty area to Lewis, who hit a left-foot 12-yard shot hard and low into the bottom left-hand corner of the net.
It was his sixth goal of the season and he also scored in his last game at Sunderland.
Jamaican international Fuller had a 20-yard right-foot shot which missed the left-hand post by inches after 36 minutes and Lewis had a left-foot shot from the left which hit the left-hand post.
Eighteen seconds into the second half Paul McKenna ran half the length of the pitch and from the left channel hit a 25-yard right-foot shot into the bottom right-hand corner of the net to make it 2-0, his fifth goal of the season.
Andy Campbell hit a 25-yard shot and Jonathan Gould seemed to tip the ball up in the air, but the ball went up over his head and into the top right-hand corner of the net to make it 2-1.
It was 2-2 when Richard Langley hit a right-wing corner over and Danny Gabbidon added a six-yard diving header into the top left-hand corner of the net.
Chris Lucketti hit the bar with a header, but a draw was a fair result.
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