Ivan has posted a useful tip for getting expiry dates to be displayed in Sharepoint Add Portal Listing page by appending "&Mode=News" to the end of the URL

Interesting article on how SPS 2003 was configured to work with SQL Server 2005: Guide to Reinstall - Migrate SPS 2003 to SQL 2005
There is also a useful link in the article on how to secure your SPS 2003 Portal
Fed up of waiting for real snow to fall in your area? Well why not just make your own snow for your site! Todd Bleeker has a nice tip for creating snow on your Sharepoint site through the use of his Snow Web Part. The snow flakes are generated by javascript code which is contained in a web part that you import into your Sharepoint site ......