Note to self:
When you've enabled “Direct Metabase Edit“ in IIS, Notepad is good -- Wordpad is bad.
Happy. Netting!
Don't use XML Notepad 2007 either. That's right don't use "XML Notepad 2007" from Microsoft.... it hoses-up Metabase.xml like nobody's business and doesnot over you the optopn of creating a backup etiher