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I thought I would share our solution, having not gotten Joomla running on windows 2003 Server R2 and with SEO functioning.
First job is to install ISAPI REWRITE
http://www.isapirewrite.com/

Then you need to configure the filer IsapiRewrite4.ini for joomla SEO

the following entries got our site working

RewriteLog  D:\temp\iirfLog.out
RewriteLogLevel 3

IterationLimit 10

# Joomla/Mambo rewrite rules
RewriteRule  ^/$                      /index.php
RewriteRule ^/content/blogsection/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=$1&Itemid=$2
RewriteRule ^/content/blogcategory/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=$1&Itemid=$2
RewriteRule ^/content/section/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=$1&Itemid=$2
RewriteRule ^/component/option,([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+) /index.php?option=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5&$6=$7
RewriteRule ^/component/option,([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+) /index.php?option=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5
RewriteRule ^/component/option,([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=$1&$2=$3
RewriteRule ^/content/category/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=$1=&id=$2&Itemid=$3
RewriteRule ^/content/view/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=$1&Itemid=$2&limit=$3&limitstart=$4
RewriteRule ^/content/view/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=$1&Itemid=$2

hope this helps others.

I share the wealth, I got it working with a Free IIS rewriter not limited and actively updated.
http://cheeso.members.winisp.net/IIRF.aspx I am using the beta version right now cause it supports some new rules I need to use.
I using the beta in production for months never skiped a beat.

IterationLimit 10
MaxMatchCount 10
Tested and working with ARTIO JoomSEF
RewriteCond %{HTTP_URL}            (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [I]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}    !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}    !-d
RewriteRule (.*)                /index.php                      [U,L]RewriteCond %{HTTP_URL}            (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [I]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}    !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}    !-d
RewriteRule (.*)                /index.php                      [U,L]


Tested and working with default Joomla SEO
RewriteRule ^/$                      /index.php
RewriteRule ^/content/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=$1&id=$2&Itemid=$3&limit=$4&limitstart=$5
RewriteRule ^/content/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=com_content&task=$1&id=$2&Itemid=$3
RewriteRule ^/component/option,([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+) /index.php?option=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5&$6=$7
RewriteRule ^/component/option,([^/]+)/([^/]+),([^/]+)/ /index.php?option=$1&$2=$3

Guys, this is great, thank you for the contributions.

Have you thought of submitting this for an FAQ? I am sure it would help many IIS users.

Will do that now. Didnot know it was in such high demand.

creating a new thread since I'm using 1.5 sorry...