Sergey, you are indeed something special ! That is exactly what did it. AND IT WORKED!
For benefit of lurkers : Just right-clicked on the SSMS icon, chose Run as Administrator and when I attached the DB to the SQL 2008 server it behaved exactly as I wanted with the DB attaching normally and NOT read-only. (and now poking around in the docs for how to turn off the UAC which is at best annoying. While many people who have known me believe I need something to protect me from myself, I would rather not assign the job to Microsoft ... or the government )
There's always a steak waiting for you in Cleveland, Sergey. <s>
>I'm not using Vista and not planning to but I know that it's not enough to be an administrator because programs may still run under a user privilidges because of freaking UAC. I was suggesting to right click om SSMS exe (whatever it is) and choose Run As Admin.
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>>I believe I am running the MS as administrator. i am logged in with the Vista admin account. Is there something I could check to confirm?
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>>Are you saying that you do not get the behavior I describe if you run MS as admin?
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>>>Try to run the Management Studio exe as Administrator
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