Dear Lee:
Thanks for the reply. That
cleared up that question.
In the meantime however, I decided
to do a fresh install. It got down to Configuring the host account and
then bombed out. Do you think that is also a permission problem?
Thanks
Ron
It could be a permissions problem. - If you use the installation wizard you can click on a link to check the permissions before you initiate the installation, so I would double check those permissions.
This tutorial is for a localhost installation, but there is a video on there which demonstrates the installation wizard:
How to install DotNetNuke 4.5 to Windows XP Pro with IIS