2000 server to server 2003

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I have a customer that have just had new server hardware and want to
upgrade to server 2003.
I ghosted over the current 2000/exchange 2000 setup to the new
hardware and all is fine,then upgrades to exchange 2003 and did the
forest/domain prep for the upgrade to 2003 standard.
We always thought they had 2000 standard but it looks like the 2000
was installed using the first disk of 2000 sbs......
So when i tried to do the 2003 upgrade it pops up that it can not
upgrade from sbs even though only the first disk was used and no other
sbs components installed.
Any way around getting this server to 2003 without masive downtime/
client reconfig?

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