UPDATED on: Nov 29, 2010

If the default Shared Services in the newly installed deployment is not deleted,
the restore job will hang when trying to restore the Shared Search Index at the following step:
Progress: [Shared Search Index] 90 percent complete.

MOSS 2007 (front-ends are Windows 2008) farm recovery  is stuck on Progress: [Shared Search Index] 90 percent complete in the log.  Does anybody know what is going on?

There are error in the event log:

Event Id: 6398

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob (ID d205f8ab-66fd-42c4-ab9e-22ef306c4c3f) threw an exception.
More information is included below.
Access is denied.

Event Id: 7076

An exception occurred while executing the Application Server Administration job.
Message: Access is denied.


Techinal Support Details:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070005):
Access is denied.
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail)
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind()
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_IsContainer()
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.CheckIsContainer()
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.Find(String name, String schemaClassName)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Metabase.MetabaseObjectCollection`1.Find(String name)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Metabase.MetabaseObjectCollection`1.get_Item(String name)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPProvisioningAssistant.ProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, ApplicationPoolIdentityType identityType, String userName, SecureString password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPMetabaseManager.ProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, SecureString password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedWebServiceInstance.CreateSharedWebServiceApplicationPool(SharedResourceProvider srp)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)