Thanks!.  That helps clear up a few answers I had.  Thanks for your post!  I do appreciate you taking time from your schedule to jot down a couple of notes! ...

Sorry, but I may have gone OT a bit.  I was curious about a particular reply to your original question.

I understand your frustration concerning third party and 64-bit.  You just never know...

Um, we purchased an AMD 64-bit and here is what MS says,

Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions supports an architecture based on 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set (x86-64), which...

I hope this is not too OT....

Is xp_sendmail still a preferred method of sending out messages from SQL Server?  In some shops I have worked in xp_sendmail is not set...