I'm not sure. Is that a setting that I would see under Properties somewhere in SQL Server Management Studio?

By the way, I am creynolds (the original poster). I didn't realize I already had an active account.

Here are some replies I made to a different forum I have this posted at. Past comments are in bold. My responses follow.

What type of replication are you...

I think I realize now that my issue is either msde2000 specific, or I have a corrupted database, as I just tested this with a sql2005 publisher, and everything was...