OK i first want to apoligze for posting a message a couple of months ago about the same issue. It's just that i have no idea what i am doing but i want the experience. But at the same time i dont want to render my DB useless. i will be perofrming this procedure after housetonight and would hope to have it ready for the morning. I have read that if the 180 day trial runs out that it would be a more difficult procedure vs. just installing it over the existing trial. Doea anyone have any suggestions on how to do this or know of some up-to-date articles on thi procedure? Does anyone have an idea as to how long this will take me? (assuming everything goes well)? One of the articles i read suggested that i backup and detach the current DB's and install SQL over top of the trial version. I do a full back up on the server every night. Is this an efficient back up? How do i "detach" a DB? What will i need to do to re-attach the DB's? I have no experience what-so-ever on SQL so please speak plain for me. And i do apoligize if these are elementary questions, i just dont have any room for an error. if i mess this up tonight then there will be 60 people who cant work tomorrow! Wow, i shouldn't have told myself that. So much pressure... Thanks in advance.