Going to get a copy of Server 2003 via the MSDN program at my school, and I would like to play with SMS, is it included with any of the server 2003 distros? or is it a add-on package?
It's a seperate program. You should be able to get it via the same channels you are going to get win2k3. By default you'll have about five licenses to play with as long as it's not for production purposes.