Garrett,

There's a meta-db setting that allows out of process servers to run, and Rick mentions that in his paper. We've ensured that it's set, so it's not that.

>Completely off-the-wall guess: isn't there as IIS checkbox that says whether to run the application in-process or out-of-process?

I'm looking for off-the-wall guesses at this point. I'm at the end of my rope, having never seen this problem before.