When I copied the code from the web page and tried to run it in SSMS 2005, I got the same errors. When I tried to save the script to a file, I received a message that there were unicode characters in the file and did I want to save the file with the characters. I said no, closed the file in SSMS and reopened it. I found that the unicode characters where located at the beginning of each line. These showed as ? in the file when I opened it since I did not save them. These did not show as anything but blank space in the original script. I would assume that the same thing caused the errors others are having.