Watch the AppPool that gets created for the actual Sites. The Central Administration AppPool was created with the proper credentials, but the Site AppPool was not. This caused the following 404 error to be displayed: HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:06:36 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.4518 In the event of any errors, check the EventLog, it clued us in that the credentials being used did not have permissions to the database. This may have actually been caused by someone else having created this particular Site Collection. I'll update after I research further. In order for Search to work, you'll need to configure the Search Service. I'm surprised some of this wasn't part of the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.