Thanks for the quick reply Paul. Here's the thing I read the installation guide of DNN throughly, but will re-read them. They are pretty simple for a fresh install of DNN, which starts on page 27; without much for pre-installation steps.
In my environment I have an SQL 2005 Server, so I chose not to install SQL 2005 Express; that included with the fact it was already on my machine.
When I install DNN through VWD, it told me that one of the modules failed (VS 2005) because it was "Not intended for your version of VS". I have the Visual Studio that came with the SQL 2005 tools. I have since uninstalled that app.
When I "Install" DNN through VWD it copies the Zip files to the path on another of my servers. I have not figured out how to stop that from happening though. When I remove the zip files, VWD stops locking up and crashing. I let it run for about 5 minutes one time hoping it would open it up, but nothing ever did.
I did not follow the "uninstall" directions from the VWD website, but will do that as well. But I don't feel it is an issue with the install since VWD works without issues when DNN zip files are not located in the template paths.
I opened up the DotNetNuke.zip file, which was copied to the Fileserver path during install, and found the Web.Config file that I was "missing". I followed the steps for the Source Code install and got further, but it generated an error message when trying to run it on the server. When I left, I was trying to install VWD & DNN on one of the servers, still not selecting SQL Express since I already have it on my machine.