Thanks for the reply. Sorry about posting to the 2008 forum...as soon as I sent my reply stating it was a 2005 issue, a "well duh" went off in my...

I should have mentioned, I am running SQL Server 2005 EE.

but how do you install the default instance for SQL Server 2005 ED? I've uninstalled SQL Server and am retrying to see if I am prompted (expect to see "default...

Attempting to do the same. Since the sproc (sp_start_job) is asynchronous (fire and forget) how do you check errors along the way?

I am running the following a .bat file...