Last night I was exeprienceing problems with a 3rd party module so decided I would simply uninstall it and load the next release.  The uninstall did not bring me back to the host page but instead timed out.  When I went to the main page of the portal it also timed out.  So I went to the local server to see if I could get some exception info and all I got was "HttpException (0x80004005): Request timed out.]
I also see the below in the server event log.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category: Web Event
Event ID: 1309
Date:  10/15/2008
Time:  12:24:06 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: WILLOW
Description:
Event code: 3001
Event message: The request has been aborted.
Event time: 10/15/2008 12:24:06 PM
Event time (UTC): 10/15/2008 5:24:06 PM
Event ID: 8f90d8479f564e3cac8730c3e91fbd81
Event sequence: 7
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0
 
Application information:
    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1224302988/Root-1-128685649261406250
    Trust level: Full
    Application Virtual Path: /
    Application Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dotnetnuke\
    Machine name: WILLOW
 
Process information:
    Process ID: 2068
    Process name: w3wp.exe
    Account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
 
Exception information:
    Exception type: HttpException
    Exception message: Request timed out.
 
Request information:
    Request URL: http://portal.whgroup.com/Default.aspx
    Request path: /Default.aspx
    User host address: 192.168.100.10
    User: 
    Is authenticated: False
    Authentication Type: 
    Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
 
Thread information:
    Thread ID: 1
    Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
    Is impersonating: False
    Stack trace: 
 
I then upgraded from from DNN 4.8 to 4.9 in what I thought would be just a waste of time but it worked.  All my previous modules were still active and functional minus the one I uninstalled.  That's when I got greedy and tried to load the recently uninstalled module.  The install failed stating that the install could not create the desktopmodule folder.  The site again started timing out and that is where I am stuck. 

I have tried upgrading again, removing dlls (per the module vendors suggetion)  and even doing a fresh install of 4.9 DNN and setting the connection string to my old database.  It continues to time out with the same error.  I guess this points me to some kind of IIS or ASP.Net problem, right?

I know it's not much to go on but this is production portal for over 300 people that use it everyday.  I will try anything at this point.

Thanks,

Peter