I'm facing exactly the same issue in Austria.
I have the following configuration on two different x86 machines: Windows Server 2003 SP2 en-US, SQL 2005 Standard Edition SP2 en-US, Template is Blank Site "German - (Germany)", MOSS 2007 SP1, WSS 3.0 SP1 and Infrastructure update for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 (.net framework 2.0 and 3.0 ...