Sorry for the delayed response - No I hadnt tryed QA connectivity.  I ended up dts'ing from the 7.0 machine to the 2000 (import),  exporting like I suggested above from...

I ended up installing 7.0 on a clean machine and DTS'ed the data.  An interesting problem aroze.  I would have thought you could DTS from the 2000 Enterprize Manager (export)...

Thankyou for your time, it is apreciated.  How would you attack my situation?  The objective is to get the current 2000 DB into a 7.0 instance and crate a 7.0...