>We have a new web server running on Windows Server 2003. We are trying to install Acrobat 5.0 on the server. We select the option to install the PDFWriter during installation. However, the PDFWriter is never installed.
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>We do see a windows dialog displaying a message that the admin must install this driver. But even someone with admin rights can't get the driver to install.
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>Can Acrobat 5 PDFWriter be installed on Windows Server 2003?

I don't know, but Acrobat 5 is getting long in the tooth.

If it doesn't absolutely, positively have to be PDFWriter maybe you could use one of the free printer driver-based PDF creators such as PrimoPDF or CutePDF.

Sometimes you can get programs to work by installing and running them in compatibility mode. For example, the ZoomBrowser program that came with my Canon digital camera is not compatible with Windows 2003. This is because the installer, when run on 2K3, thinks it's running in Windows XP and it therefore expects the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service to be available, which is explicitly not available in 2K3.

I got around it by forcing the global installer, plus all the called setup sub-executables, to run in Windows 2000 compatibility mode (which also does not have UPnP).

If you want to try this route, right-click on each of the executables that will run, and in the Compatibility tab of Properties, select an appropriate OS.