I have an update on this situation.
Perhaps it may even prove useful to somebody out there. The aforementioned problems occurred when I was remotely logged in to the host machine. When I was physically at the machine that hosts this service, I had no issues. As far as I know, being logged in remotely should not be a problem, but for whatever reason, it was the reason I had these issues. In my case at least, I can’t do any admin without being at the machine. If I had an actual server in a server cabinet, doing any admin would be quite the pain.
Regards.