Thank you again for your help guys.

I will try the new function and see if that works any better. I will post back my results good or bad.

Just to be clear though on my issue. The scripts I have used so far ONLY set the service to automatic. THen when I go and manually start the service it says it is still disabled (1058 error pops up on the screen, and a 10005 DCOM error in the event log), even though the service tool claims it is set to automatic... weird.

The service will not start after that until I use the service tool to re-set the service type to any other mode and back again.

Talk to you guys in a little bit...