Information_Schema disappears?

Recently we had a development server on WIN2K running SQL 2K. We noticed that the Information_Schema views disappeared. We have no idea how. It appeared to be about the time most recent patches were run. However, patches were applied to many servers, and the others all have Information_Schema
We reinstalled (needed an os upgrade) the OS bringing it up to Win2003, and reinstalled SQL2K. All patches were installed on both the operating system and sql
Information_Schema was present
We have not reinstalled
We have not rebooted
Information_Schema is now not present
Last week's queries against it now fail
Any ideas?It appears that the views are still in Master, but have owner dbo
They can only be accessed in Master, and don't have data for other db's
What would cause this
What can be done to correct
Thanks!|||Any ideas on this
It is truly vexing, and we'd appreciate some input here!
Thanks.|||I've never seen or heard about this. Assuming you have searched KB already,
this sounds like an MS Support case to me...
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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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"Linda" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Any ideas on this?
> It is truly vexing, and we'd appreciate some input here!!
> Thanks.