You know that the reason I could not use the EM to connect was because my sqlagent service was running (that one connection right there).  After stopping the sqlagent serivice,...

Yes I did close the EM and reopen it back and I did click refresh.  The problem still persisted.  I ended up deleting DBMPs and their corresponding jobs and re-created...

Thank you!  I tried similar steps yesterday and it worked.

Thank you all for the ideas!  I've played around with the script and took the server username and password (who was not a SA account) out and ran the script...