Hey Shane found this information on Samss. It says it can't be disabled but obviously something has disabled it?? There are a
lot of services on the list of dependencies that I don't have in my computer management console. The file name is lsass.exe and is in the right system 32 folder but I noticed there is another one named lsass(100).exe
i was thinking of removing it to see what happens. I did a registry backup in case. If I cut and paste it to a temp folder I created it won't remove.. should i try and just delete it?? thanks again!!
Security Accounts Manager (System Services for the Windows Server 2003 Family and Windows XP Operating Systems)
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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
Service Name: SamSs
Executable Name: Lsass.exe
Log On As: LocalSystem
Description: The Security Accounts Manager (SAM) service is a protected subsystem that manages user and group account information. In Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, workstation security accounts are stored by SAM in the registry of the local computer, and domain controller security accounts are stored in Active Directory. In Windows NT 4.0, both local and domain security accounts are stored in the registry.
The startup of this service signals other services that SAM is ready to accept requests.
This service cannot be stopped.If you disable this service, other services in the system are not notified when SAM is ready, which might cause those services to fail to start correctly. This service should not be disabled.
Available on: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition and Windows Server 2003, Web Edition.
Installed through: Default operating system installation
Startup type: Automatic
Service status: Started
This service depends on the following system components:
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
The following system components depend on this service:
DHCP Server
Distributed File System
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
FTP Publishing Service
HTTP SSL
IIS Admin Service
Intersite Messenging
Message Queuing
Message Queuing Downlevel Client Support
Message Queuing Triggers
Microsoft POP3 Service
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Windows Internet name Services (WINS)
World Wide Web Publishing Service
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network store is running, the main service problem seems to be Samsc service and Server service still won't start 
