i just create a view of a trace,a nd then scripted the view to be a table;

CREATE VIEW sp_DMLTrace

AS

SELECT * FROM ::fn_trace_gettable('c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\MyDMLtrace2.trc', default)

here's it's definition; does it match what you were using?

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SP_DMLTRACE] (

[TEXTDATA] NTEXT NULL,

[BINARYDATA] IMAGE NULL,

[DATABASEID] INT NULL,

[TRANSACTIONID] BIGINT NULL,

[LINENUMBER] INT NULL,

[NTUSERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[NTDOMAINNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[HOSTNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[CLIENTPROCESSID] INT NULL,

[APPLICATIONNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[LOGINNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[SPID] INT NULL,

[DURATION] BIGINT NULL,

[STARTTIME] DATETIME NULL,

[ENDTIME] DATETIME NULL,

[READS] BIGINT NULL,

[WRITES] BIGINT NULL,

[CPU] INT NULL,

[PERMISSIONS] BIGINT NULL,

[SEVERITY] INT NULL,

[EVENTSUBCLASS] INT NULL,

[OBJECTID] INT NULL,

[SUCCESS] INT NULL,

[INDEXID] INT NULL,

[INTEGERDATA] INT NULL,

[SERVERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[EVENTCLASS] INT NULL,

[OBJECTTYPE] INT NULL,

[NESTLEVEL] INT NULL,

[STATE] INT NULL,

[ERROR] INT NULL,

[MODE] INT NULL,

[HANDLE] INT NULL,

[OBJECTNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[DATABASENAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[FILENAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[OWNERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[ROLENAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[TARGETUSERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[DBUSERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[LOGINSID] IMAGE NULL,

[TARGETLOGINNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[TARGETLOGINSID] IMAGE NULL,

[COLUMNPERMISSIONS] INT NULL,

[LINKEDSERVERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[PROVIDERNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[METHODNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[ROWCOUNTS] BIGINT NULL,

[REQUESTID] INT NULL,

[XACTSEQUENCE] BIGINT NULL,

[EVENTSEQUENCE] BIGINT NULL,

[BIGINTDATA1] BIGINT NULL,

[BIGINTDATA2] BIGINT NULL,

[GUID] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NULL,

[INTEGERDATA2] INT NULL,

[OBJECTID2] BIGINT NULL,

[TYPE] INT NULL,

[OWNERID] INT NULL,

[PARENTNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[ISSYSTEM] INT NULL,

[OFFSET] INT NULL,

[SOURCEDATABASEID] INT NULL,

[SQLHANDLE] IMAGE NULL,

[SESSIONLOGINNAME] NVARCHAR(256) NULL,

[PLANHANDLE] IMAGE NULL)