Question : IIS Running, but Web Svcs wont start

The cable guys came in yesterday and tried to set up broad band.  They had a terrible time, never got broad band running, and seem to have trashed my machine pretty bad.

The most critical thing that doesn't work is that I can't get my default web site to run.  

I'm running IIS 5.1 on XP

In the IIS management console I choose the web site and click start, after a few seconds I get "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

In Services, the web publishing service is not started.  When I try to start it I get "Could not start the WWW Pub service on Local Computer.  Error 126: The specified module could not be found."

I've tried stopping & starting IIS, it seems to do fine from the services window.  In another post it suggested running iisreset.exe.  When I do that IIS stops fine, but then when it tries to start I get "Restart attempt failed.  IIS Admin Service is disabled."

I checked the event viewer, and nothing is showing up in the last few minutes (I just retried everything), but there are some error events from earlier today:

EventID:3001 Source:LoadPerf "The performance counter name string value in teh registry is incorrectly formatted."

EventID:3011 Source:LoadPerf "Unloading the perofmance counter strings for service WmiAplRpl failed"

Does anyone have any suggestions?  

Answer : IIS Running, but Web Svcs wont start

PAQ'd and points refunded.

SpideyMod
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