Thanks for the reply, I finally figured it out though. Any good web developer/administrator knows about eventvwr.msc, right? Well, I just found that nifty little tool yesterday after 2 years of configuring and managing IIS 6 web applications. How does that even happen? I have no idea... lack of proper training I suppose. Once I got there, I saw this: "Could not load all ISAPI filters for site/service. Therefore startup aborted." I had added an ISAPI filter for PHP that was invalid. After I deleted that, everything worked like a charm.