The 208 error is expected. What is not expected is that the script doesn't see it. I now see that this might be a bug in the test script.

What is NOT expected at all is that he is not getting any of the error messages:

Server message number=208 severity=1 state=0 line=0 text=ok 9

Note the last bit there - it should say something like:

text=sys_users not found. Specify owner.objectname or use sp_help...

Michael