Thanks for all the replies. I got past my original question with the following (can't remember where I found it):

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I've seen or heard a number of times about the importance of collecting baseline information, but this is the first time I've seen some specific suggestions as to where to...

I am also loving this! Thanks for contributing!

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1351590-146-1.aspx

Recently, Grant Fritchey suggested that I stick with Trace Flag 1222 only (see this link). I tried that...

I see. Thanks for the information. I've heard the 2005 study guide was better than the 2008 one, but evidently it has errors as well.

Yes, I was aware of the profiler trace option, but I had already ruled out doing that on a production server.

Thanks for the recommendation. We have it turned on with no issues today. 🙂

The problem was as simple as not having a 'GO' at the end of each of my view scripts. I guess my template for stored proc creation had a...

Right click on the stored procedure in SSMS and choose View dependencies.

I continued to try various things and finally got it working. Unfortunately, I don't know what the underlying issue was. I hate that. Anyway, it's done and...

Yes.

Well, I spoke too soon. I can only access the report manager locally (from the server itself). When I try to access from another machine, I get prompted...

When all else fails go back to the basics and redo. I basically went to this page and redid everything.

How to Configure Reporting Services

Case closed. Thanks for your...

Below are the contents of the config file. I added the top three nodes and adjusted the url for my server based on an answer that helped someone solve...

Yes, I did a...

Thanks, Al-Rahim, I may try that later. Since this is a test, I have also tried log shipping to another secondary. For those trials, the jobs get created...