I haven't worked with IIS6 in a while (and I don't have it installed, so I'm going off memory here), but I had to implement something similar with IIS6 for routing extensionless URLs in IIS6.
If your web application is getting deployed to multiple dev/production environments, then the best way seems to be disable WebDAV at the web. Config level. To do this, remove the WebDAVModule and the WebDAV handler as in the below example.
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