I'd like to stop it too. It's annoying.

Perfect!!! Thank you!

I can't find where that info is in the system tables/view in 2005. In SQL Server 2000 it was in the message filed of the msdb..sysdbmaintplan_history table.

I need the full path and filename for the backup file.

This is pretty good. Can you show me a query that will tell me the latest backup file name for a given database in SQL Server 2005? ...

If I may, I have an additional question about this.

Are there are application response issues with using one authentication method over the other? 

I actually was asked this question yesterday.