I am thinking that SSIS DTC does not really work or that there are some special attributes

that tasks contained in a sequence with transaction=required, that these tasks need to

have. Is sequentiality and same-thread guaranteed for all tasks in a sequence? I'm getting

failures on the first task in a transactioned sequence for no reason, am tempted to bag

SSIS/DTC and go with the literal BEGIN TRANSACTION ( which would involve redesigning

the whole loop -- arrgghh )