Addendum. In my troubleshooting, I've turned off Run64BitRuntime, and the connections work. Why would 64-bit runtime work when connecting to the dev server but not the production server?

This...

This is a new installation of SQL 2008. My boss successfully installed the sample databases on SQL 2008 on his XP box.

No help there. Even in the comments on that page there are references to this error, but no fix. My guess is that it has something to do...

I am having another issue that I think may have the same root cause. When I try to install the AdventureWorks sample databases from codeplex.com, the installer hangs at...

I have the same issue on both the active and the passive node. That article doesn't address the issue I'm having. I tried the command line argument but...