Thanks for the help. Not sure what I was thinking. This does make a lot more sense.

Thanks for the response. I ended up copying the SQL Server 2005 installation Disc 1 to the file system. Doing this is any other way would not work....

Jon,

  In the places I have been, CERTS have been a big factor.  Microsoft CERTS are very good, as I have seen new DBA's hired based on these (for...

Well, in SP4, it also fixed a bug that was not supposed to be in earlier versions, but was.  This is a snippet.  We had an application who did not...