Just retyping any part of the account name works for me. This is less time than browsing.

I've already done this - both named pipes and tcp/ip, and a static port of 1434 on the tcp/ip side.

Are you able to remotely connect to named instances of MSDE?

Okay - found part of the problem.

Something went through our network and disabled MSDTC on machine where MSDE and SQLExpress reside.  I re-enabled MSDTC on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server,...

Thanks for the suggestion.  Most of the MSDE and SQLExpress instances reside on Windows Server 2003.  In one case, an MSDE version resides on Windows XP but the firewall is...

Luke,

First of all, sorry that my original post was unclear about the instances. 

Your guess is right - I've gone through all the stuff necessary to expose the MSDE instances...

Hi Luke,

Thanks for your reply.  The issue with SQL2000 and SQL2005 on the same box only applies to one situation.  The other situation deals only with SQL2000 MSDE.  I know...