After installing the dreaded ADO 2.0 SDK, my server would no longer execute
any of my ASP pages that depended on ADO, so I followed the suggestions of
others posting in this list, and removed the files by running the SDK
installation a second time.  Then, I manually deleted the msado15.dll file.

Following that, I reinstalled ADO 1.5, but now I'm experiencing some very
strange errors, and ADO is still broken.

The error message that keeps appearing is as follows:

    Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a01ad'
    Automation server can't create object
    /Whatsnew/index.asp, line 39

The object that the ASP page is trying create is:

    conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");

I found that at least one other object also can't be created:

    util = Server.CreateObject("ixsso.util");  // the index server utility
class

Now here's the kicker.....
I also use a class that I wrote myself in Java (JBuilder, not J++) and
registered the class.  Apparently, I can create this object (it works on all
my pages) using:

     fcObj = Server.CreateObject("FileCounter");

But not any of the others.

Questions:

1.  Is there more to uninstalling ADO 2.0 than what I did?

2.  Do I have to somehow reregister these indigenous classes now???

3.  What else can I do to fix the broken ASP pages on our server?

4.  Is Microsoft going to acknowledge that it put out a faulty produce with
ADO 2.0?  I see the huge number of people experiencing problems with it and
have to wonder.....

Notes:

1.  I also uninstalled my old copy of NT Options Pack 4 and installed a
fresh download from the MS website.  I also downloaded the MDAC 1.5

2.  Earlier, I had installed the new JScript engine v3.1, and then the 5.0
beta.  Unfortunately, neither of the engines comes with an uninstall
executable, but I did try to overwrite the 5.0 beta by reinstalling the 3.1
scripting engine.

3.  I checked my ODBC Administrator to make sure that my drivers are all
working, and they do appear to be functional (at least, they can establish a
link to SQL Server 6.5).

4.  I believe that the anonymous user IUSR_XXX has read/executable
permission for all the documents in question, after all, my class is loading
fine from ASP....