If you are using SQL2005 what collation settings are configured? Ican't find what Microsoft supports with SQL 2005 but they have thefollowing for SQL2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832814/
I've not done SQL 2005 with SharePoint 2003 but I'd be surprised if itisn't the default collation sequence. I've heard that you can achievesubstantial performance gains by moving to it.
our SPS (piloted in the next few weeks) implementation uses a SQL collation of Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS for all four dbs_PROF_SERV_SITE_Config_db