My client has received the following error:
The SSP Search settings page (/ssp/admin/_layouts/searchsspsettings.aspx) keeps showing the following error:

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it xx.xx.xx.xx:54314

54314is the SSL port being used. We never configured it to use SSL, so I am not sure what triggered it to be used. Also, I checked the properties for the SSP and the “SSL for Web Services” is set to No.

Here's what I discovered:

If you build your servers with .Net 3.5 SP1 before installing MOSS you will see this problem, however, If you install .Net 3.0, then MOSS, then upgrade to .Net 3.5 SP1, all is well.

I recently ran into a problem where when I went to edit-mode of my page the number of zone would change. In view mode I had 4 zones and in edit mode i only had two. This is in a MOSS Publishing site and my first thought was that it had been edited in SharePoint Designer. After confirming that that was not the case, I discovered that someone added zones directly to the content page in the “pages” library, rather than to the underlying layout page in the master page gallery. I was able to quickly resolve the issue. Hope this helps.