Great article Brandie, like how you offered multiple solutions and showed how you worked through them.
Jeff likes to use ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) to generate random numbers, I haven't done any testing on it like you did, so don't know if it has issues with repetition or not. I've been treating it like it doesn't for non-critical use, suppose I should check that.;-)
See http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic666309-338-1.aspx for an example of his use.
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"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."