So I have been trying to learn Windows Workflow Foundation as it pertains to Sharepoint.  I downloaded all the toolkits and templates and what not for Sharepoint 2007.  I started working on this Tutorial that Robert Bogue has in Real World Sharepoint 2007.  I am at the point I want to figure out how to deploy the solution, so I think on a whim let's check my Sharepoint instance.  It takes about 5 minutes to load and tells me the that it can not find the configuration database.  I try to check the services to see if SQL is running and it checks out.  I looked into all the Sharepoint Services and they checked out.  I even checked the event log, but all it really said was what I knew that the Configuration Database could not connect and no longer existed.  I ran the Sharepoint Product and Technologies Configuration Wizard and it dies around part 6, because there is no Configuration Database.  At this point I decided let's see the Windows Workflow Foundation Templates broke this VPC, so I start with my clean vpc that I keep as a backup.  I installed the Windows Workflow Foundation Templates, the Office Sharepoint Server SDK, and the Sharepoint Visual Studio 2005 Templates.  So far it is working 100% without any issues.  There is a possibility my workflow broke the VPC, however I never deployed the solution.  I may play around with it some more later, but this is pretty baffling considering the new VPC is fine.