Great Isaac, It's all working now, made my first post.
I'm only struggling with which USER to grant permission. I originally gave full permission to IIS_IUSRS (MYCOMPUTER\IIS_IUSRS) but that gave me all the permission errors.
I have a sneaky feeling that when you browse locally to LOCALHOST that maybe you're not coming in under IIS_IUSRS. meh. wierd.
Questions for you:
Are you accessing your message board locally via LOCALHOST, and if so, to which users did you grant permissions?
