I second what Steve Jones said.

Then again, without more information any suggestions may be as useless. I know my first thought sounded great until I read your...

Paul,

Would there not be some issues caused by the OP's attempt to bounce the database version from 2000 to 2005 and then back to 2000?

Then again, this might just...

Perfect; just perfect!

Thank you very much for this moment of well needed and received levity.