Hi,

Ran into the same issue. Reinstalled .Net 2.0

but the issue persisted.

Came across this article

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=525809&SiteID=1

which pointed me to

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=903205

While the version in the KB didn't matchup, I did check

msdb.dbo.syssubsystems and found that the BINN directory listed in

the paths was missing in action. Somebody else did a reinstall of SQL2K5 on the box and I think the registry or MSDB didn't get updated

with the new path.

As a test, I copied over the BINN directory from mssql.3 to mssql.1 and restarted SQL Agent. The jobs now run without error. Probably a better way to fix this but it's Saturday so this will do for now.