Hello,
I couldn’t get it to work with IIS 5.1 on XP Pro SP2, so I installed Apache and that worked. (I didn’t use any of the user tips on this site) I picked up a book on PHP & MySQL and followed it’s installation instructions for Apache, PHP and MySQL. I bought the 2007 edition. It’s sad that many technical books on the shelf are obsolete. The first one I tried was two years old and was a waste of time.
Environ: Apache 2.2.4; PHP 5.2.0: MySQL 5.0; WordPress 2.1