Thanks Rock for the quick response. After finding MY missplaced glasses last nite, I went back and indeed found the 'Last Counter/Last Help' values under \preflib as you originally stated. Ichanged both values to '1846/1847' respectively. I also went on a little snoopying venture and found that 'Web Platform Installer' installed a new instance of SQLEXPRESS from the SQL Server 2008 EXPRESS SP1 appl, instead of updateing my existent SQLExpress2008! Now I need to find a way to correct that problem and see if I can still have access my SQL Databases.
Thanks again for all of your help!!
TomJ . . .