>Wasn't there a way to access a https site without having a certificate installed? Of course, this requires the addition of 443 in the list of port for the Web site and the warning message when accessing the site. But, has this approach been discountinued under Windows Server 2003? Is this still possible?

If you run the 'Internet Services Manager' you can drill down to a specific folder to get to the page you are wanting to run. The select the file and rightmouse click to get to the properties. Once there you can use the 'File Security' TAB to tell it to use Basic Authentication. In the Secure Communications area you can press the EDIT button and turn off Certificates for that file.

This may help, it did for us to be able to run certain scheduled tasks that were Cold Fusion web pages on the server.