Thanks, I'll give that a try

When you are running the Surface Area Configuration are you trying to connect via the IP address or the virtual server name? I found I was able to connect...

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I believe I will use the 2005 STD edition and do a 2 node cluster with log shipping to a remote site for...

That was it. When I tried the debugger on the server it worked.

Thanks for your help

Is that not automatically installed when you install sql server?

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I am trying to create a report with a column heading of the day of the week but with a column value of the sum of a field for that...

Yes the -f option let me start the service and then do a Ctrl-C and stop the service.  Then I was able to open Enterprise Manager.

You have to stop the sql server service before starting up the server in single user mode from the command prompt.  After getting the errors at the command prompt I...

Since SQL Server is in single user mode I cannot connect to it thru Enterprise Manager or Query Analyzer

I have a good backup of the master DB.  It's just that after setting the server to single user mode and restoring the master database from the backup I am...

Nevermind, I found my answer in an article by Andy Warren "SQL Maintenance Plans - Under the Covers!"

Thanks Jonathan, I was testing in QA and the it was the setting there that was overriding the server setting