Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure what is going on. This is my connection string in both web.config and log4net.config.
<add name="BugNET" connectionString="server=myremoteserver;database=BugNET;uid=bugnet;pwd=bugnet1" />
The instructions say to change the name to match the database. Also, my SQL database is located on a different server than the web server. The issue is also not the user permissions, as I tried with the SA login too. But I still do not believe that my issue is related to database access, because as I mentioned, all the tables and stored procedures get created. It just hangs at creating the admin and won't insert data (that I have noticed).
My web.config already had <roleManager enabled="true">, so that isn't the issue either.
Any other ideas?