When Profiler is shut down normally the trace is stopped and deleted from the system. Are you sure you the trace is running? I really doubt it.
Run Select * From sys.traces
and you should see the default trace, id = 1 and any others that are defined. The one from profiler will have a NULL path and is_rowset should be 1.
If it is running there is no way to attach to it that I am aware of so you are out of luck regardless.
Jack Corbett
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