Two good solutions- thanks guys!

Ok, thanks.  Good to know I'm not missing anything obvious.

Good question.  Here's the scenario.

I need a re-useable script to import an excel spreadsheet of users, import them into a Users table (creating the proper user id and password along...

That makes sense, but then I lose my variable values.  But I can either put that in my table too or re-calculate it after the GO.  Thanks!

I just need the rows numbered sequentially, starting with a variable number.  I got it to work by creating the ALTER TABLE statement dynamically, as suggested above.

Thanks for your help!

The DBCC CHECKIDENT call doesn't seem to do anything, the identity values are the same after the call (start with 1).  I get this message:

 "Checking identity information: current identity value '1058',...