Sorry - I meant to post this when I got it:
From Buck Woody:
No, the SSIS team has a different connection method that doesn’t allow us to connect with SSMS. I apologize if my Connect response was misleading. Sometimes when we try to explain an issue we make it a little less clear
So you can't connect to SSIS 2008 from SSMS 2005. You will need to maintain both SSMS 2005 and 2008
MG
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