just hazarding a guess, but since this is running on Express, could the AUTOCLOSE setting of the database be causing the disconnect of the client connections, when SQL Server decides it has been idle for a while?
on express versions, AUTOCLOSE is true by default, where on server verison it is not...you can always change it to false.
Lowell
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