Cannot save Maintenance plan

I use sa to login to sql 2005. I can save Maintenance plan using wizard. However, when I try to save maintenance plan using the maintenance plan design screen, I received error message "Apply to target server failed for job ...". When I check the job, there is no step in the job.

In the Maintenance wizard, there is no maintenance clean up task. I want to create a task to delete my backup file if it is older than certain days.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.

have you considered using the script task?|||

Although Maintenance Plans are built on the SSIS infrastrcucture, they do have some aspects that we do not cover. Best to start in the SQL Server Tools forum. I'll move this thread for now.

Thanks

Donald