Did you fix your PHP 5.3 issue on Windows 2008 server on 64-bit?

This post is to help anyone who is having 500 Internal Server Errors with their install of PHP 5.3 on IIS 7 in the Windows 2008 Server environment. I just spent a few hours troubleshooting this and I hope I can help save more hours of the same for others. I looked this up and found a lot of false leads...

I have vista premium home and IIS 7 I am using dreamweaver cs3 and i beginner to asp. My problem is that the ie says http 500. My code of the page is <% theSchema="http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/" Set cdoConfig=server.CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") cdoConfig...

IIS7 Configuration? NTFS Permissions? Temp File? DSN or DSN-less connection Any idea?