>Thanks for that link! It's the first useful information on the topic I've seen on MSDN. It brings up one >major< question though: what is SharePoint? Why is the IT manager having me install the data there? It clearly looks like the data should be in MSSQL.1\data--and I don't even have access to that directory. Have I missed something?

I'm not up on Sharepoint other than being aware of it - it's a Microsoft product for sharing information within a company (someone else may give a better description). We have it on our Windows SBS 2003 installation, but we don't currently use it. I've noticed it has MSDE 2000 as it's data store, but I don't know how typical that is.