Thanks for the replies. I'll go ahead and try.

With regard to SSIS, I have tried exporting plans but could not see how to do this via the msdb db,...

Thanks for the response. Have implemented it and it works well.

Yes I always configure logging. That's where I got the message from I included in the first post.

Since I posted I have discovered that the SQL box that is working...

This is what I found!

"If the job step is a T-SQL step and if the job owner is an account that is in the sysadmin fixed server role, than your...

So if I delete the entry under Database Maintenance Plans then the Jobs will no longer run?