SharePoint 2010 install on Windows 7

I just got SharePoint 2010 Server installed and had a few lessons learned.

First, I followed the directions at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx

Everything installed perfectly but when Central Administration came up the page was blank. So... I uninstalled and reinstalled SharePoint (4 times) and then went to bed. After a good nights sleep I realized it had to be an IIS issue.

I completely removed IIS from the box and just followed the directions from the above link and magically it all worked perfectly. It may have been that I was also running WSS 3.0 on the same OS or maybe IIS just got corrupted but now it works.