Thanks Ed, this is a Dev server which was upgraded to R2 for a reason which no one knows, so to get Dev / Test / Live all in sync we are downgrading Dev to 2008 as everything else in the organisation is 2008.

The DB's in question are the aspdotnetstorefront databases and they are provided to you in the scipts as encrypted, the person who put the DB's in has now left and no one remembers the password to login and get the scripts so that they can be recreated without the encryption clause.