It IS a very good article and a long time in coming.  We've been able to stretch the DTS considerably with setting global variables.  Never did get looping figured out in SQL 2000 so our solution?  Cheat.

We had a stored procedure do the looping and then set the variables it needs through a temporary table, as below:

 while ( @TName is not null )

 begin

  print 'TableName is ' + @TName

  exec master..xp_cmdshell 'dtsrun /S"ServerName" /E /N"ReUsableDTSName"'

  if @TName = @TNameLast break

  set rowcount 1

  select @TName = TableName

  from LastUpdated

  where TableName not in (

   select TableName

   from  DenverStats )

  order by TableName

  set rowcount 0

end

It wasn't the most elegant solution, but it worked for getting the rowcounts for every table in the database of a remote Oracle schema.  It takes a while to learn but global variables have saved me a lot of copy/paste.  Thanks for bringing it up.

Andre