initdb: failed

I have spent several days trying tofind the cause of this on google,
but I am stumped.

Thsi is the article I was using as a guideline:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1233

I am running on Windows 2000 professional.  ipc-daemon2 seems to start
fien in the service window.

The problem is when I log into windows as postgres.  I rin the initdb
-D command, it runs through its checks and then says initdb fails
saying there is a lock file on the existing PID.  There is no
postmaster process runnign.  I delete out the data directory to make
sure there is no pid file, rerun initdb -D again and same thing.

The versions of the software are the latest.  I just downloaded them a
coupel days ago.
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