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Restore in Enterprise Manager slow to initialize due to excessive old backups.

I am using SQL Server 2000.  I have been doing a full daily backup for over a year now.  I have the backup job set to delete any old backup files over 7 days old.  When I open the restore database and pick the database I want fo restore from it can take 5 minutes before I can even select the correct date.  Even though the backup files no longer exist the drop down for dates goes all the way back. Is there a way to fix this?
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Take a look at the stored proc sp_delete_backuphistory  even though you delete the actual backup files, the history is maintained in MSDB.

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