I didn't get a chance to install the SP yet, but one thing I did notice was that when it fails, it always fails after 20 seconds.  I tried adding...

In SSIS, I tried something else...I created an Execute T-SQL Task and put my insert statement in as the statement to execute, and it failed with a the same message.  I'll try the...

Thanks Chris, I did learn that very early on.  However, the spreadsheet was not opened in all subsequent tries while getting this error.

Scott

SSIS had no problems with it.  All I got was for each column in the Excel spreadsheet was something like the following:

Warning: 0x802092A7 at Data Flow Task, OLE...

Yep, I can try it out in SSIS and see what it reports, if anything.  Thanks for the suggestion.  And it's only about 250 rows.  I tried it with a...

Thanks Cris, but no, my test spreadsheet is the same set of data each try.  That's why it's so annoying.