IIS not starting with XP pro SP2

From: gr33n3ggz (gr33n3ggz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:15:05 -0800

I am a domain admin at a software development company. All our development
desktops are running IIS, SQL server, VS6, and VS.net. From a clean install
of xp with sp2 we install IIS and it runs. We have the Firewall disabled and
the only type of symantec product we run is VS. However after a couple
reboots IIS gets killed with this:
The IIS Admin service hung on starting.

Then we get.....

The IIS Admin service terminated with service-specific error 2147549183
(0x8000FFFF).

Then...

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service depends on the IIS Admin
service which failed to start because of the following error:
After starting, the service hung in a start-pending state.

And...

The World Wide Web Publishing service depends on the IIS Admin service which
failed to start because of the following error:
After starting, the service hung in a start-pending state.

Finally when i go into services and try to manually start IIS Admin i get:

Windows could not start IIS Admin on Local Computer. For more information,
review the System Even Log. This this is a non-Microsoft service, contact
the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code -2147418113.

This also happens if we install XP SP2 from SP1.

Any ideas?

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