A great article Rod, I think the least this does is give us all a "boost" or wake-up call. And in some cases we take action so we don't lie...

Thank you for this! Its not immediately obvious as one has to double-click rather than opening a tree, but its great that this feature is still available.

Thanks to all for the replies.

This may indeed work, though I'll try again in future. Its probably a permissions thing as suggested.

Thanks Cath, interesting that you can detach/attach from 2K to 2K5.

I'll have to manage with backup/restore for the moment..

Ok I looked further into this and heres some info (which will also answer your replies, thanks for those btw):

To move a database from 2000 to 2005 you CANNOT detach/attach....