Learn something new every day....and man there is a lot to learn.
the limit on include columns is 1023.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190806.aspx
I stand corrected, when you remake the non clustered index I would make it a covering index over the select statement.
But 1st I'd do what Gail had suggested.
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