Thanks for the input guys, sorry it is a sql 2000 install and I had intended to use the sp drop server etc, just thought that if there where any...

We have trialled it on the minimum specs between 3 machines ( many to one). Found that it worked well for our small databases, but when we got to our...

Thanks Tom, yes we had come to that conclusion. We have checked the client and the servers regional settings and found them to be the same ???? One client Machine...