Ok. I have dealt with mismatched version numbers between servers countless times in both SharePoint 2003 and 2007 when transferring data between two environments. What I had not run into (until today) was the fact that WSS 2.0 can be updated (SP3) while Sharepoint Portal Services was bone-stock-out-of-the-box. It took me a bit to figure out what was going on. I was attempting to restore a 2003 site into a test environment but was getting the dreaded "Your backup is from a different version of Windows ......
In working through an issue with workflow I stumbled across an interesting 'feature' of workflow and MOSS. Essentially I have a "Project Sites" root web where I am creating child sites via a workflow: Project Sites Child Site 1 List 1 List 2 In these child sites I am creating some lists and setting alerts on them based upon things that happen in the workflow. In attempting to create an alert on a list, I received a "List does not exist" error. In stepping through the code and inspecting all the objects ......