Cannot access top site (home page)

[JimBassett]

A software engineer promoted a standard asp.net page default.aspx to our WSS 2003 server and since then we cannot access the default home page of SharePoint. We can access the sub sites, document libraries etc. but not the top site home page. It seems his default.aspx file overwrote SharePoints. We have not any direct changes to a SharePoint default.aspx file so is there a standard one one we could replace the lost one with and where would it go?

 

[JimBassett]

Here is the error message when accessing the home page:

Cannot create an instance of the control of type PPC.SSO.Util._Default. For more information, contact the server administrator.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.g+b: Cannot create an instance of the control of type PPC.SSO.Util._Default. For more information, contact the server administrator.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[b: Cannot create an instance of the control of type PPC.SSO.Util._Default. For more information, contact the server administrator.]
Microsoft.SharePoint.g.d() +1940
Microsoft.SharePoint.ad.c(Int32 A_0) +182
Microsoft.SharePoint.ad.d(Int32 A_0) +35
Microsoft.SharePoint.ad.a(Boolean A_0) +190
Microsoft.SharePoint.g.a() +82
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.a(Uri A_0, bn A_1, HttpContext A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Int64& A_5, SPWebPartCollection& A_6) +190
Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SharePointHandler.SPProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +356

[ApplicationException: Exception of type System.ApplicationException was thrown.]
Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SharePointHandler.SPProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +1073
Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SharePointHandler.SPProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +0
Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SharePointHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +21
System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication+IExecutionStep.Execute() +179
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +87




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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2300; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2300

 

[sahrepiont]

I have done this before, only using WSS v3. I tryed to play around with the default.master. Basically the rendering of the main site page has taken a jit here.
Q. Can you get the original default.master, default.aspx and restore them?

Rgds

sahrepiont Man

 

[JimBassett]

Where would I find the default.master or default.aspx for a SharePoint site?