>After installing MSDE and making sure the the serice is running, go into
> the Studio.NET environment and open the Server Explorer. You can then add > your instance of MSDE inder the SQL Servers list. You can browse and edit
> your tables, views, stored procs, diagrams, etc.

I did not know you could do that. Just did. Very Very nice. It has some features I like better than MMC...ability to open treeview to field level. MMC is much much faster. I have a 1.1 ghz, 512k mem, fast video, fast big hard drives etc. Maybe as I use it and things become cached it will speed up to a better level.