James - I'm not a Windows guru, but one thing apparent from your Exclude specifications is that
Exclude.dir "d:\MSSQL2000\MSSQL\Data\*.*" doesn't make sense for what I perceive you are trying to achieve: that's a filename pattern on the end, for legacy "8.3" filenames, with a dot in them, whereas Exclude.Dir is supposed to simply name a single directory or a wildcard-identified set of directories. Richard Sims a DOS survivor
