My specs:

Dell Latitude D820

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU

T7600 @ 2.33Ghz

1.65Ghz, 1.99 GB of RAM

Windows XP Professional SP2

SQL Server 2005 SP2

Hi Josh,

Yes, my work-around technique is the same as yours, simply do a query instead of doing an "Open Table" from the context menu.

Less than ideal, but it works.  But...

Getting the exact same thing.  And I can make it happen on a local database as well.