As Helter said I too may be nit-picking but technically it is your code. If you have a "reasonable" probability of hitting something, you should code for it. Scripts blowing up is not pretty.

Consider this as well: I have worked for some pretty computer lame bosses and if they saw your script blowup, they would not think "Oh the machine is down" they would ask "What is wrong with your scipt?"

If it were me, I would put in something to deal with machine outage and password issues. But again that is just me! ;-)

Glad to see you solved it!