I am having trouble with sharepoint configuration. It keeps bombing out with a filenNotFound error. Here is the error from the log:

02/08/2007 09:08:14 9 ERR Task services has failed with an unknown exception

02/08/2007 09:08:14 9 ERR Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.MSSITLB.IGatherApplication2.BackupRegistry(Boolean fBackupNow)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.GathererApplication.Provision()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.SPSearchServiceInstance.Synchronize(Boolean installGathererApplication)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.SPSearchServiceInstance.Provision()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServiceInstanceInConfigDB(Boolean provisionTheServiceInstanceToo, String serviceInstanceRegistryKeyName, Object sharepointServiceObject)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServiceInstances(Boolean provisionTheServiceInstancesToo, String serviceRegistryKeyName, Object sharepointServiceObject)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServices(Boolean provisionTheServicesToo)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.Run()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

Please, if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I am very new to all this and would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks.