I just installed IIS 5.1 on XP SP3 and enabled MSMQ. I then installed the Stock Trader 2.04 application.
The install completes just fine and creates the databases correctly, and I followed all the post-install steps.
When I attempt to access the localhost/trade app, I get the 500 error screen.

The event viewer provides this message:

The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC/1/Root/Trade'. The error was '8007053d'.
For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

From what I've found online, this looks like a metabase issue, but I couldn't find much.

I uninstalled IIS and stock trader and reinstalled but keep getting the same issue.
I'm hoping someone can offer some assistance with this.

Thanks,
-Chris

Hi All, I resolved the issue.

When installing on IIS 5.1, you have to set the applications to run in Low Protection and you have to set a username and password in the processModel section of the Machine.Config.
<processModel userName="<username>" password="<password>" autoConfig="true"/>

HTH,
-Chris