Attempting to run WAMP on Microsoft 2008 server

Problem running WAMP:
I remote desktop into my Microsoft 2008 server, and have successfully installed WAMP. [If anyone is wondering why I am attempting to use WAMP instead of LAMP (or anything else), it is because I need to download sqlsr module (http://drupal.org/node/1207972) - which should be topic ignored here (http://drupal.org/node/1336650)]. When I goto the start menu, and click "start WampServer", I get the following error-message Aestan Tray Menu box:

Aestan Tray Menu has stopped working

Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.

Check online for a solution and close the program

Close the program



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Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: wampmanager.exe

Application Version: 1.6.1.33

Application Timestamp: 2a425e19

Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll

Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17651

Fault Module Timestamp: 4e211319

Exception Code: 0eedfade

Exception Offset: 0000b9bc

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.272.7

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 891f

Additional Information 2: 891f8ecaa4636eab9d64e12e7ca2b7c4

Additional Information 3: fd5c

Additional Information 4: fd5c21723f3b200d9ca391af2a52aa45



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When I click: "Check online for a solution and close the program", I get the following Application Error:

Exception Exception in module wampmanager.exe at 000F15A0

Could not execute run action:

The application has failed to start because its side-byside

configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or

use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail

Question:
Anyone have any idea's why starting up my WAMP results in the Aestan Tray menu error message box?

Researching solutions:
When I was googling why my WAMP wouldn't start in Microsoft 2008 server, I got the following results:

• make sure wamp is the same bit as the server (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5631571/not-able-to-launch-wamp) - which it is
• make sure no other program is running and conflicting with WAMP: skype, IIS, remote desktop, ... - Since this is Virtual machine running Microsoft 2008, this mean there are hardly any processes running, I count 11 running processes. One of them is Remote Desktop, but that is packaged with Windows, and I believe is running on a different port from WAMP - so that should not be an issue. (http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,71076).
  
  1. I attempted to figure out if another process is running on port 80 or 443, by using the netstat -b -a command (http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/installation/aestan-tray-menu-...), and found that nothing is using those ports.
  2. I am running IIS on our Microsoft 2008 server. It was strongly suggested to not run IIS with WAMP. So we disabled IIS.
• Next, using command prompt "netstat -ao", i notice port 80 is not used. Checking into httpd.conf, I make sure that the file is "listen"ing to port 80, and lastly "ServerName localhost:80". Unfortunately, this did not result in a fix.