>>Shouldn't be the last one sys.fulltext_catalogs, for consistency ?
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>Oh, that strange, I wonder why that code is working. Do you know of the differences between those two?

BOL 2005 explains it quite nicely: "This [sysfulltextcatalogs] SQL Server 2000 system table is included as a view for backward compatibility. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead".