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Recently I worked an issue involving the FIM 2010 Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) product.  I did spend some time troubleshooting it, so I wanted to take the time to document what I did and the items that were reviewed to help fix the issue. 

I do maintain a TechNet Wiki as well, which is where I normally dump the full document.  Here is the Wiki.