I am having the same basic problem. I had IIS installed successfully at one point. I installed the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit and ASP.NET to go with my installation of VS.NET 2003 Pro. After that, I began having problems. The VB-RK support team recommended uninstalling the Kit and IIS and then reinstalling. I did the uninstalls. Now, when I try to install IIS, the installer stops at about 80% complete and just hangs there. When I go into Add/Remove components, IIS components are checked as existing. Oddly enough, though, when I go into the Computer Management console, IIS does not appear in the Services and Applications- but I do have the FrontPage 2000 Extensions Management Console.
Anyway, anyone out there know how I can get IIS installed cleanly again (without wiping the entire OS)?
BTW, I am running WinXP-Pro w/SP1 and all fixes to-date and have .NET Framework v1.1 installed.