Seems you CAN create indexes on views using SQL Server Standard edition. Check out the following:

USE Northwind

GO

--Set the options to support indexed views.

SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF

GO

SET ANSI_PADDING,ANSI_WARNINGS,CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL,ARITHABORT,QUOTED_IDENTIFIER,ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

--Create view.

CREATE...

I previously checked out that BOL topic and found the following:

Note: You can create indexed views only if you install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition or Microsoft SQL...

SQL Agent is running under the ‘Administrator’ account. I modified this account (via Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Mgmt/Local Users & Groups) to add the 'Backup Operators' group, ran the Database Maintenance...

I did, same error. All Tasks/Backup Database works fine for manual backups but I need to set up a schedule (especially for the transaction logs).