Getting 404 errors on files that are present

I run a website with over 770,000 files for downloading. I am getting 404
errors for files that you can clearly "see" because the page that your
seeing was created on the fly by the directory browsing feature. I don't
think I was having this much trouble with the Sever 2000/iis v? but I seem
to be having much more trouble now.

The thing that all the files that are getting these errors have in common is
they are text files with "funny" extensions like ".lst" or ".dir" or ".bbs"

My small webhost thinks that there is a "security" switch that will cause
iis to be willing to serve any file in a sub-directory. Does anyone have a
clue?
Thanks,


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Wannabe, More at: http://bccs.chatnfiles.com/ecard3.htm, International
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770,000+ downloads.



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