hi, I believe you want to give administrative rights to IIS without being local administrator.
What's your IIS version?
In IIS 4/5, you can define the "operators" (IIS manager, properties on your computer name, in the master properties click edit, operators tab, select your group.
There may be some NTFS ajustments to make such as c:\windows\system32\inetsrv but with a good filemon/regmon you'll isolate permissions issues.
hope this helps
Jeff
Hope this helps. Please let me know if this resolve your issue
Jeff