It's not just SQL Server. Windows Server 2003 SP2 has issues. Removes Help & Support. Causes issues if you have older Broadcom drivers. Don't forget the furor over what it can do to ISA Server. And the fact that it released on patch Tuesday (when there were no other patches) without warning meaning it got auto-applied to a bunch of systems... yeah. I think Susan Bradley has summed up the fury of the community in some of her posts.

And, if that wasn't bad enough MS07-017 wasn't clean, either. Causes problems with Realtek HD Audio Control Panel. And there's a hotfix out. It was out almost immediately and Microsoft is now pushing that as part of the WSUS / AU process. I know MS07-017 was rushed out the door because of the .ANI animated cursor vulnerability but certainy something like the Realtek issue should have been caught as it's not an unusual piece of software on workstations.