so we're back to where I came in. You can't see the reports either way. You have the pretty GUI and the list... and before, you were seeing through the list; but, people didn't like that. Now you can't see anything. Perhaps something was left in cache and you've cleared it alone the way. Has this machine been restarted since February? Patches applied, etc? It's not always easy to un-install/re-install SQL Server. I haven't done that since 2006 when this site published my notes on cleaning up. We were using Beta software, so anything I wrote about could have been fixed... Still, it could still be difficult. You would be better off trying to install fresh on another host or in a VM. seems like I had other suggestions, let me finish reading and I will comment again below.