Andy, I totally agree - better to know than not! Have to overcome the core fear of admitting the problem, but it's a great way to reduce stress just having it out in the open.

Elizabeth, thanks for the comments and I hope it gives you the starting point to something that works. I'm a pragmatic guy, anything that works is better than something that doesn't. I think I had a lot of luck making my solution work, the one thing that tipped the balance was that I was totally willing to admit any & all mistakes and to make them very visible!

I've got a small prequel post on my blog that you might find interesting as well - http://blogs.sqlservercentral.com/andy_warren/archive/2008/01/28/it-transparency-the-intro.aspx.