Thanks Andy, I've tried that. Still receive the same error message:

Description: The package path referenced an object that cannot be found: "\Package.Configurations[TestSetConfig].Properties[ConfigurationString]". This occur

s when an attempt is made to resolve a package path to an object that cannot be found.

I am really wondering if the docs are misleading. I cannot seem to find any examples. I wonder if we are the only ones using config files in this fashion? We have multiple test environments on one SQL instance (2005), so we use the /CONFIG switch to point to different XML package configurations at runtime.

Am going to test using tables for package configs with the /CON to change values at runtime. If that works and we cannot find the proper syntax, it might be the quickest refactoring effort for us to upgrade to 2008R2.

thx,

jg