Okay, because I love the programming community I'm going to let loose with a little bit of

As it turns out, I didn't have the Win98 box as a member of the domain, therefore validation for SQL2000 was failing on that point.

What I still think is odd is that SQL7.0 had no problem dishing up data to me while SQL2000 did. Obviously, SQL2000 is a bit tighter on the security side.

Anyways, I learned through this and I thank those that contributed.