Web Sharing, TimeMachine, and CFURL

So I've been using web sharing under 10.5 for months. Yesterday, I decided to upgrade my harddrive. After making sure everything was saved under TimeMachine, I swapped in the new hard drive, did a system restore, went to sleep, and woke up to my new computer with 200gb of free space! Flawless.
Except: now WebSharing doesn't work. I try to access Localhost, 127.0.0.1, or my computer's IP addy and Safari looks at me as if I had gone mad: "Safari can’t find the server." it says. Well, why not?
I tried investigating via command line and got this error:
launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache. httpd.plist) failed: -10
Investigating the file, it looks ok. Thinking it might be a permissions issue, I allowed more write access, but then it said "Dubious permissions on file (skipping)." Well ****. So now I am stumped. Do you have any ideas?
-Brett

bheliker wrote:
Yes, using localhost, 127.0.0.1 and my IP address all result in the same issue.
Attempting to start apache it throws the error "already running" but stopping and starting or restarting has no effect...
thanks for the help,
brett
If you turn off WebSharing, do you still have any httpd events showing up in the Application Monitor?
It sounds like one of more of the server files are corrupt or misplaced.
Did you ever make any changes to any of the server files?

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I have posted this as a new post as well but if anyone has five mins could they take a look - I would be very grateful. Here you go:
I am new to all this so I have probably made some simple errors and I hope someone can help me. I will retell what I have done as I haven't a clue what part of what I have done has mucked things up.
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WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
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