Thank you, thank you, thank you all!!

To my eternal embarrassment this was the problem. I was TOLD the account I was using had access but I didn't actually check. ...

Thanks all for the responses.

I believe it is EE but I await correction:

select @@version

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (X64) Jun 17 2011 00:54:03 ...