Installing WSS 3.0 on SBS 2003 after Uninstalling WSS 2.0



I am trying to install SharePoint Services 3.0 on Small Business Server
2003 SP1 with SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition after removing
SharePoint Services 2.0.

Everything during the installation went fine, except I cannot start the
SharePoint Services Search service. I am aware of the issues with the
search service being unavailable in a side-by-side installation of WSS
2.0 to WSS 3.0 (after migrating databases from WMSDE to SQL Server),
but as this was a clean installation using SQL Server I didn't think
I'd have any problems.

When I try to start the service I see a page containing the following
error:

Error
SPSearch ([service account])

Where [service account] is a domain user account specifically created
for the service account. A separate domain user account has been
created specifically for the content access account.

There's nothing in the Event Logs but the following is part of a line
repeated a few times in the trace log:

The call to SPSearchServiceInstance.Provision (server 'servername')
failed. Setting back to previous status 'Disabled'.
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: SPSearch (wssdatabaseaccess)
at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Win32.SPAdvApi32.ChangeServiceConfiguration(String
strServiceName, String strAccountName, SecureString sstrPassword,
IdentityType identityType, Boolean bDontRestartService) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPProvisioningAssistant.ProvisionProcessIdentity(String
strUserName, SecureString secStrPassword, IdentityType identityType,
Boolean isAdminProcess, Boolean isWindowsService, String
strServiceName, Boolean dontRestartService) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPProcessIdentity.ProvisionInternal(SecureString
sstrPassword, Boolean isRunningInTimer) at Micro...

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