Please review the following link to answer your question and good luck

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx

This is a really ugle subject in my opinion as Microsoft stopped asking for the license key at installation in version 2005 and higher, now you get a piece of...

Good to hear, glad I could help.

Great to hear, glad to help.

Since this is a dedicated SQL Server, the memory allocation is fine being set as default. Other things to look at are backups of the databases especially the transaction...

No worries, I am just glad homebrew01 caught the obvious oversight on my part. That has always been one of SQLs most annoying statements, @@version gives only the build...

That's it, you are currently running SQL Server 2005 RTM - no service packs have been applied. If you would like to see all available versions, updater, service packs...

Good catch - please run the following in SSMS

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion'), SERVERPROPERTY ('productlevel'), SERVERPROPERTY ('edition')

Results need to be SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 2005.90.3042 or higher

One more question than I will bow to the higher powers - is this happening on the actual server or when you are attempting to create a subplan via your...

May I ask what SP you are running, there was a bug on Maintenance Plans prior to SP2 on SQL 2005

I must be confused by what you are saying as I have multiple Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2005 where I created multiple Subplans. If you are in the...

One more option, besides verify the TCP/IP enabled is to check the firewall and specificly port 1433

You need to delete a particluar file, which will remove all listed servers - "It turns out that you actually can clear the list, but it requires that you remove...

Is this happening at the server or on a local workstation? Check to see how much memory is allocated to your SQL Server instance and also take a look...

The following site lists all versions of SQL with a link to what exactly is in each update/release.

http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/

Hope this helps.