Thank you for your reply but after painstakingly bumbling around yesterday I found something that isn't quite how I wanted to do it but it still works. If you...

I have no idea either but if you found out I'd love to know. It's bloody annoying and driving me insane... where I have to save scripts is about...

We haven't had the message since my last post but given this is prod and there are very large databases on this server I really would like to know why...

This is the first time I have got this message.  It happened on backup job that completed successfully.  I am running SP2.  Any further comments on this?

Yep done that too.. I don't think there was nothing I didn't try... except one.  I was working on Saturday and trying to figure this out as this was one...

Yep no macros.  It runs a stored proc (with a parameter)  which I guess is called via the query and that is all ok... I don't need to change that,...