Here's the official MS method:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207003.aspxWhat did you do about your scheduled jobs and database objects/settings that were lost when you rebuilt the system database?
I agree that some vendors will be able to take care of this for customers and some customers will take care of it without even having to ask. I don't think the current customer falls into that category. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1