This is what I see every day when I log into Vista at work. It's an error dialog that ironically says "The operation completed successfully". And you can see the Apache logo on the task bar.
So, apparently Vista thinks starting Apache successfully is an error. :-)

Update: 06/03/2007
With the help of Simeon Bateman, this week I was able to get ColdFusion MX 7.2 to hook-up with Apache 2.2.3 under PCLinuxOS. Really it's not that difficult (if you find the right resources).
Below are some instructions for anyone else trying to coerce ColdFusion 7.0.2 to play nice with Apache 2.2.3. And for my personal reference of course.
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