Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows 2003 Server with Sharepoint 2007 Office Server

I has been impossible for me to get sharepoint 2007 up and running on any of our development servers. What I was able to do was to install Virtual Server 2005 on my desk top and then load sharepoint 2007 in that environment.
NOW, what I a am trying to do is load Virtual Server 2005 R2 on a development server that has MS server 2003 but I am unable to get the Administration website to display. When I try to display the Admin. page I receive a 403 error - You are not authorized to view this page. The install option for virtual server was "configure the adminstration web site to always run as the authenticated user" selected. When I change the install option ov Virtual server to "Configure the Administration Website to always run as the local system account, I do get the Administration website to come up but I receive the errors:

[2193 byte] By [whatawildridethisis] at [2007-12-31]