Apollo

To logon as a local account when joined to a domain just use computername\username

Good ol' Name.dll I assume. Can't see anything on deploying it, but Microsoft has a KB on removing the prompt - Message in the Information bar in Internet Explorer 7 when you browse to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or to a SharePoint Server 2007 site: "The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control'"

I have found in the past that if you install .NET 2.0 before IIS you need to restart to get the ASP extensions to show up.