I am working on setting up a new installation of Umbraco.  This is on a Server 2008 R2 SP1 64b.

I ran through the manual installation steps outlined in the instructions.  Here is what I did

Downloaded and unzipped

created new IIS iste

modified permissions:

REM Following line in original script incorrectly sets all child folder permissions
REM icacls . /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls app_code /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)RX
icacls app_browsers /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)RX
icacls app_data /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls bin /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)R
icacls config /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls css /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls data /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls masterpages /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls media /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls python /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls scripts /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls umbraco /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)R
icacls usercontrols /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)R
icacls xslt /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls web.config /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":(OI)(CI)M
icacls web.config /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":M
REM If you have installed the Robots.txt editor package you need the following line too
icacls robots.txt /grant "IIS APPPOOL\umbraco":M

created database and login

went to http://umbraco and got error, and after searching the web copied the system.web.xx files to \bin as prescribed by blog posts.

went back to http://umbraco and got the welcom/setup umbraco page.  Proceeded with that process and the database successfully was setup and configured.  on the 'Create User' page I entered the information as required, but when I submitted the form it failed and threw an error.

After a refresh of the page, I get kicked out to an Umbraco login screen, and no credentials work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated