I'm posting what I found and works after testing many different things in case it benefits someone out there.

Antatres686, thanks for all your input - it was very helpful. On...

Antares686,

As always, thanks for your help. I will find time to test this today and I'll report my findings.

Antares686,

I'm still looking into this but I'm having a real brain-freeze and can't seem to find info on this.

Is there a way to select the returned columns from the sp_help_job...

Antares686,

Thanks for your suggestion I will look into it and see if takes care of my problem.  I'll then post it here for the benefit of others.