>Now that I think of it, I'm not sure I had any of these problems until I installed SP3 and MSIE 4.0 on the server machine here. Oh well. I may try a reinstall of SP3 and see what happens. (I just got the GPF again without changing any permissions -- just navigating in Explorer.)
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Frankly, I have never seen IIS bomb with a GPF. I've had IIS die without a trace or entry in the
EventLog but never with a Dr. Watson. The unexpected disappearance was caused by a bad version
of ASP.DLL which is the default loaded with SP3 of NT.

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