Raj,
The WWW Publishing Service is started on the box. I have tried a repair and a remove/reinstall and the service still does not start. I have verified via telnet that I can connect to the SQL box on the backend using port 1433.
I'm not sure what the problem is.
When I try to upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.1.x, my application fails the upgrade and removes the database. I have to re-create all the devices anyway, so its no big deal (I'm used to it by now...This application is not very well written).