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I am going to try another thing, making sure i have all the updates, i found a nice website for basic troublehsooting SQL, this guy wrote an entire page on this error i am getting, that is only connecting to SQL using managemnet studio, but still probably same concept, did all his things such as port changing, firewall turned off, verify name etc but still nothing, i am going to do SP2 on SQL 2005, maybe an update issue. will let everyone know the outcome. wish me luck