Thanks Jeff!
We just started playing with it. We had found an incompatibility between Windows 2003 R2/SP2 and SQL 2000 running on a multicore processer. In a nut shell, if Win 2003 R2/SP2 was loaded on a deployment server or a terminal server, it timed out when running very long UBEs, forcing us to down rev to SP1.
My Asian counterpart had a hunch and tried out the new SQL native client with Windows 2003 R2/SP2 on both his Deployment and terminal servers and it worked like a charm.
That will also give us our upgrade path to SQL 2005 (which is the next project). Great news!
Gregg