James and Cynthia must be some pretty epic DBA's @ $3000\hr

Nice article. thank you.

the error text I get is:

"Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to...

ah ok, my bad

You say you are using SQL2008 EE (express edition)?

SQL2005EE had data file size restrictions of 4Gb I think? Once your EE DB grew to 4Gb+ it would start giving erros...