>I had to enable SQL Server in Zone Alarm the first time, via the popup ballon when I first ran it. I'm not sure how you do it after the fact. Maybe it was initially denied. Otherwise, I'm running XP and zone alarm without any issues.

SQL Server is listed (twice) and is marked as trusted. I also marked the ODBC Manager as trusted (although that makes me a little nervous). Still doesn't matter. It works for a little while after a reboot and then I get error messages about not being able to find the server. Turning ZA off resolves the problem.

Not a big deal. Everything at this particular site is behind a firewall so none of the users have ZA. Not really worth the time to track this down further.

Thanks for the confirmation/help guys.