This seems to be an issue that is more common than I originally thought I got mine to email from a reboot of our server after the updates had been applied. I know that there has to be a better answer to this since the updates did not require a reboot, and a typically windows 2003 production server can...

I had the exact issue occur to me recently. Where I would set multiple different (single basic and advanced alerts with any statements) alerts to catch the issue that I have deemed need to alert me. I had set the actions to email, log to syslog, log to event, and to an alert file. All actions would occur...