>> You may have forgotten how many times I have had to reinstall VWD and SQL Server. :-(

I haven't. And that seems to be the root cause of the problems you're having. A faulty OS installation, or faulty SQL / VWD installation.

A clean install of Windows and VWD will probably do wonders.... ;)

Imar


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