Anthony,

thanks for that, most helpful. so what it means is in 2005 we can still use the DR process of copying over and restoring the msdb to recover jobs, alerts and packages. However whereas in 2000 all we had to do was update sysjobs.originating_server witht the new server name, we will now also need to go through the SSIS packages in BIDS and update the connection manager objects, which could be time consuming if you have lots of packages, unlesss that can be automated.