How to allow relaying in win 2003 smtp server?

First of all be sure that you have configured smtp from Add remove windows programs -> Add remove windows components -> Application Server.

After you have installed the service, open IIS Manager and choose SMTP -> Properties.
Go to "Access" tab and press "Relay". Choose "All except the list below" and uncheck the statement at the bottom. This worked for me.

How to clean up word html tags?

It is hard to understand why MS does not allow to create clean html code while saving word documents in html format. Lots of people like me are having difficulties with this issue. Luckily people developed workarounds for this problem. I find some of them especially useful. Try this if you want an online MS word html cleaner. Try this if you want some code sample for cleaning word tags in .Net C#, and this.
Using Regular expressions; link1, link2

A useful add-on for visual studio 2005

CoolCommands 3.0 adds some useful commands to your context menu and solution items, check it out here...

The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002) in Event Log

If your search in Wss 3.0 site returns no results when it should have, check the event log for the error The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002). It may be the indication of your windows search service not running. Start it and check if it is ok.

Weird behaviour with custom search box control

While i was trying some formatting on the custom search box control that I mentioned in my Customizing wss 3.0 default search scope post I encountered a weird behaviour. I simply issued a format(code beautfy ctrl K-D) command and saved the control , and this made the control invisible on my sharepoint main site. I didn't guess it was because of my command and wrestled with stsadms, reinstall features etc. When I returned back from a backup I was surprised (and happy!) to see it working again.

VSeWSS Version 1.0 has been released

Download here.