Thanks fot the response - you may have been onto something there,although it SHOULD have all been ok. I couldn't have my server down any longer....
I ended up having to reinstall BES from scratch - I just couldn't convince it that the MSDE install I already had was good. I ended up having to point it off to an SQL server and have in remake everything. For licenses and stuff that's no big deal - but of course the users were a different matter.
Somehow - and i still dont know how - the correlation between "user" and "PIN" got completely messed up. The blackberryprofiles database was still there but boy was it messed up. As were the state databases. I ended up having to remove all of the users, shutdown the domino server. delete the blackberryprofiles and all the BES\state files and then restart the server. That automatically remade the files, then I had to go back around and re-add the users. Thankfully I've only got 30 or so.
I just wish I knew what got screwed up - something with the existing MSDE databases holding the server config clearly wasn't good. That caused me to do the SQL install, and then perhaps something else fugged the Domino/BES databases. Maybe I just got lucky with my initial BES 4.0/MSDE install!
I think I like MSDE less that I like SQL
