Thanks for your help.

The error message I'm getting in the logs is:

SQL Server Scheduled Job 'hm_build_ft' (0xC0B499F8F5AD3047803EC1417DC293A7)
- Status: Failed - Invoked on: 2005-07-19 01:35:37 - Message: The job failed.
The Job was invoked by User CIHWEBSQL\Edward.  The last step to run was step
1 (drop_rebuild).

These are the (abbreviated) results of sp_help 'item':

Name  Owner  Type          Created_datetime
item    dbo      user talbe   2005-07-12 19:53

Column_name  Type      Computed  Length  Prec  Scale  Nullable  
item_id            decimal  no             9          18     0       no

TrimTrailingBlanks  FixedLenNullInSource  Collation
n/a                        n/a                            NULL

Identity  Seed  Increment  Not for Replication
item_id  1       1               0

RowGuidCol
No rowguidcol column defined

Data_located_on_filegroup
PRIMARY

index_name  index_description  
PK_item        clusered, unique, primary key located on PRIMARY

index_keys
item_id

constraint_type                contraint_name
PRIMARY KEY (clustered)  PK_item

delete_action, update_action, status_enabled, status_for_replication = n/a

constraint_keys
item_id

I have tried to create SQL FTS on the pubs database but the problem is the
same:

USE pubs
EXEC sp_fulltext_database  'enable'

USE pubs
EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog   'ft_temp','create'

USE pubs
EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'authors',
'drop'

USE pubs
EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'authors', 'create', 'ft_temp', 'PK_authors'

It creates the catalog but I don't get any further.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,

ed