>All of these entries state that ," The server did not 
>register with DCOM within the required timeout". 
>Apparently, MTS has stopped and our IIS server has to be 
>rebooted. ( we are administering this box remotely)  Any 
>ideas or suggestions? We would love to have a utility 
>that starts MTS once it starts to 'hang'.

I think it will be better to find why your component 
doesn't work.
I think errors appearing in EventLog are due to the fact 
your component is too slow at startup. It's often the 
case when you put too slowly code in Sub Main() or 
Initialize() routine. Maybe you are in a such situation ?

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 Phil