I am new to DNN, so if I have missed the obvious, I apologize in advance.

I have win2003, sql 2005, IIS 6, asp.net 2.0.  I have a clean install of DNN 4.3.5 source on my server.

All seems to function properly except, when I add the forum module to a page I get the following error at the top of the content pane:

A critical error has occurred. Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 47.

If I click on settings for the forum module on the page I get this error:

Error: Module is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.Exceptions.ProcessModuleLoadException(PortalModuleBase ctrlModule, Exception exc) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.ModuleSettings.LoadSettings() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Modules.ModuleSettingsPage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Ken

Thanks Crispy,

The connection strings in the web.config were fine. I had noticed that several other modules were having errors as well so I dumped everything and started with a fresh install. 

I had allowed the source pack to unzip into its own sub directory on the server during the initial install i.e c:\dotnetnuke\DotNetNuke_4.3.5_source\.  For the fresh install I unzipped the source into c:\dotnetnuke (no sub directory).  That seems to have made all the difference.

Thanks again, I appreciate all of your help.

Ken