Thanks for the quick response, and I did consider going to SQL Server Express 2008 - my only reason not to would be that my production system is on SQL Server 2005 and I wanted the test system to be as close as possible. On the other hand, I ran my test system on 2005 for several months while the production systeme was on SQL Server 2000. Would you expect there to be any issues restoring a database on SQL Server Express 2008 that was backed up from SQL Server 2005? If that should be OK I may just go with the upgrade.