Thank you for your comments...

Now as I stated in the article I will be writing a follow-up to this one in the very near future showing one or two of the snippets, written in Vb.Net, getting put to some interesting use for a custom app.

Also as far as the comment about why I suggested a virtual server for the initial install my reasoning is this. Have you downloaded the 2008 SQL Server CTP to your work or personal machine - not a server of course - only to find that when it comes time to remove the trial or CTP software your needed installs (SQL Server 2005) fails to work? I simply use Microsoft’s virtual client and create a virtual space for tools like SCOM, CTP versions of software and the like then I never have to worry about uninstalling them or worse yet the annoying messages when the trial version is about to run out. And everything is contained in isolation without worry.