Hi Charles,

I'm glad that you won this round against UAC (Uterly Annoying Crap) but it'll get you again pretty soon. :)

>Sergey, you are indeed something special ! That is exactly what did it. AND IT WORKED!
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>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 )
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>There's always a steak waiting for you in Cleveland, Sergey. <s>