If you really want to change the owner you can modify it in msdb.sysdtspackages.

This article also explains how to transfer the SID's along with the logins using a couple of stored procs.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992

I believe this is the article being referred to:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/workingwithtempdb.mspx

A mirrored db can be used as a reporting db when used with database snapshots. This may accomplish what you need.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175511.aspx

I would recommmend 4 drives for datafiles (one for each CPU core), 1 drive for your log files, and 1 drive for tempdb database. The link below is also handy.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/storage-top-10.mspx

The cost of the exam is $125 in the United States.

My bet is the db was shrunk to leave no free space, set to auto grow at some interval around 100MB, and someone inserted some data causing the database...

Set Category for the database to 0 in master.dbo.sysdatabases. Then you can delete it.

Carl is correct. Change the maintenance plan to NOT shrink the database.

Make sure you have 1.2 times the largest table's free space in the data file to re-index the tables....

After getting a little more info myself, it's supposed to be Unix time. The number of seconds since midnight UTC of January 1, 1970. Michael's solution works perfectly. Thanks.

Using Active Directory distribution groups is also handy. Then you can make the AD admins make the changes.

RAID5 is not the way to go. See the below article on SQL Server Storage Best Paractices:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/storage-top-10.mspx

If there is only 3GB being used in a 12GB log file, you may be able to shrink the production log file using DBCC SHRINKFILE. Then do the backup and...

Does the server need more memory? Have you ran perfomance counters (Target Server Memory)?

Currently you do not have the /3GB switch and have 16GB in the box. So, 2GB is...

Sounds like a flaky network card. Try switching to a different NIC in the box to see if the issue remains.