>Gar,
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>This issue was covered by Kalen Delaney in one of her articles for SQL Server mag. As it turns out, dtproperties is listed as a system table by the SEM. It's hard-coded or something.
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>-Mike

I'll see if I can find the article. So I don't have to worry about this in general -- just hard code for to handle the dtproperties table, if it exists.