hmm.. I'll give it a try, thanks Giz. I just realized my above post might have seemed a bit snarky, sorry all, just frustrating when things go wrong for no apparent reason.

So, checked all files, permissions set correctly... I just realized something.. this has to be script related or such. It's not that it's not recognizing which files are present or not... It's that it is not processing that it needs to move on to the next step *period*. When I click the submit(or whatever) button, it's not sending the form data, it's just sending me back to the main page.

Rick fixed it.. turns out The config file was set for http://dancesafe.org, and for some reason that wasn't allowing anything variables to be passed. So he changed it to http://www.dancesafe.org and it worked.

Just putting this up there in case someone else has this problem.

THANKS RICK!

hehe, it's usually something simple.

possibly a .htaccess files issue or redirector setting?