Can you access the default web site through a browser?
If you browse to
http://localhost/ on the server itself you should see the IIS welcome page.
Also I wasn't referring to IIS itself being started, but the web site. If you load IIS admin you will see a list of web sites - it might only one - the "Default Web Site". If it says "Stopped" next to it then something else is using the port.
-M