I have been trying to get DotNetNuke up and running for almost a week now.  I have read the Install Guide at DotNetNuke.com, i have cross referenced DNN for Dummies and another DNN resource.  I have followed Mitchels install guide found here to a T: http://www.mitchelsellers.com/Blogs/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/119/Installing-DotNetNuke-455-Locally.aspx

Still unable to get this installation off the ground can someone please help me out.  I'll try to list all the details.

Windows 2003 Server with IIS Installed

.Net Framework 2.0 (plus updates) install

SQL Server 2005 Express and SQL Server Management Studio Express Installed

Created DotNetNuke DB; Created DNNUser (SQL Authentication) and gave DB_Owner to DNN DB via User Mapping.  Tested DNNUser by loging into SQL with credentials.

Created Install directory called DotNetNuke at c:\inetpub\wwwroot, Gave Network Service account Full Control

1. Also inside the web.config look for a setting called <add name="AutoUpgrade" value="True" />, change the value on this to "False"
2. Lastly inside the web.config look for a setting called <add name="UseWizard" value="True" />, change the value on this to "False"

Clicked on Properties for DotNetNuke Virtual Directory in IIS and clicked on Create to to create an application name.  Made sure Default.aspx was only document on Doc tab.  Checked Anonymous access on Directory Security tab.  Ensure ASP.Net 2.0 is selected on ASP.net tab.

Went to http://localhost/DotNetNuke/Install/install.aspx and got Page Cannot be displayed so i enabled Allow ASP.Net V2.0 via Web Service Extensions and now i get "This site is currently Unavailable"

What the heck am i missing?  I've gone around and around with this thing and really could use some help.

Here is my config entries:

<connectionStrings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express -->
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Server=ORBDEVSVR21\SQLEXPRESS;Database=DotNetNuke;uid=dnnuser;pwd=DotNetnuke;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
   -->
  </connectionStrings>
  <appSettings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules   -->
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"/>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=ORBDEVSVR21\SQLEXPRESS;Database=DotNetNuke;uid=dnnuser;pwd=DotNetnuke;"/>
    -->