I receive this message. Any help appreciated!

It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Thanks
Lynn

It's telling you what the problem is: "can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS."

If you have correctly set up the IIS virtual directory, then you probably have a syntax or configuration error in web.config.

Eric