Downloading now and will try it, I originally did not want to use the developer as I wanted a 64bit version (have 64 Vista so may as well!!!) and my...

OK thanks, I was unaware of this, would explain a lot, I will stick to express until I have my server up and running then. I will try the registries...

(local) does work, how comes localhost\mssqlserver does not work then, surely it should do?

As for reporting services, I am not sure what to do about that!

If I run Reporting Services...