DEP Data-Execution-Prevention Windows 2003 Server "Joy"

I just had the "fun" of dealing with a difficult to track down (the underlying cause of) COM Surrogate error in Windows 2003 Server Web Edition with SP2 on it. The error was showing up constantly in the event logs on reboot, and a web-application that used COM+ components was working and failing intermittently because of something going wrong in the COM system.Well, after a lot of hunting