Wow - its been quite here for a while.. Ive been busy! :)
Ferry in Auckland passed on word of a new tool coming out to assist with SQL Server based developments where you want to migrate an entire database (including data) from one server to another. If that sounds useful, give the CTP a download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=16d8c1e9-a6a3-43a2-9ba7-916c6eb5023b&displaylang=en
Also worth checking out on the same line are the red-gate tools (http://www.red-gate.com/) which offer some great capabilities and definitely more advanced and rich capabilities for SQL devs and dba's.