Stuart

Many thanks for your reply. I have been doing investigation into this, and I'm getting some inconsistent findings.

If I open the file in Excel or Notepad++ then it looks fine,...

I have found the solution to the issue. I had previously done a Google search for this but didn't come up with any solutions. However, I've just run another search,...

As mentioned in my first post, it looks like we're running a developer copy (this is a dev server, not production):

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.5057.00 (Intel X86) Mar 25...

Yes it is - if I check services I can see SQL Server Integration Services, and it's started, and running under NTAUTHORITY\Network Service (Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2)

I'm referring to the flat file connection manager, which defines the output file receiving...