>I have a question: How do you install enterprise manager for msde? When I installed MSDE and then tried to install enterprise manager on the same machine, the install process upgraded MSDE to SQL*Server 7 at the same time. I was using the VS Plus Pack that came with VS6.0.

How about just installing Client Tools, or whatever it's called? IIRC, that should only give you Enterprise Manager and few other things, but not upgrade to SS7.