re-write URLs under IIS for Drupal

This is mainly a note to myself, but perhaps it wil help someone else as well.
Although all of the sites I work on end up being hosted under LAMP, I develop most of them locally on my XP machine using the built in IIS for localhost.

The only problem I have ever run into (well once I got the whole thing working anyway) is that IIS does not have URL rewriting, and without rewriting there are no clean-urls, and without clean-urls there is no services/AMFPHP.

I just ran across this node http://drupal.org/node/149318 that mentions an OPEN SOURCE Isapi rewrite filter (http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF).
Cool!

Now to install and test it out.
More info will be forthcoming.

down the rabbit hole again

Why is it that every site requires a return to the beginning?
I am working on a new Drupal site for Rae's cousin who runs a small management consulting firm in Seattle.

It should be dead easy, right?
Just drop in a few modules, do some simple theme work, post to the host, and go get lunch.
Right.

Instead I am looking for a JQuery plugin that does dropdown menus cleanly, trying to remember if there was a reason I had not used the asset module last time around, fighting with CSS, and generally feeling unmotivated.
I suppose having a well thought out process and a set of standards would help.
Maybe next time.