Hi Raj!
Thanks for your reply.
That's a good idea, but when I checked I found that is the default.
While I was there, I got creative (but I didn't break anything.... yet).
I set the task to run "At Logon" of the same user rather than startup and set the system to autologon. The autologon worked like a champ, but the task is still being stubborn.
It seems like it's not saving the password, at least not beyond the current session. Very strange.
One more tidbit of new information, I found a different error message listed in the task status after it fails:
"Logon Failure: unknown username or bad password (0x8007052E)".
The error listed in my first post is whats recorded in the task history.
Let me know if you have any other thoughts and thanks for the help!
Best Regards, John