I think part of this problem is MySQL.

I can't get phpmyAdmin to work and just saying the heck with it and running the install.php file for the board has a fail on the database log in.

Of course, after I installed MySQL, all I did was give root a password and I created a second admin user with a password as well.

Some of the documentation is okay, but if you are installing MySQL and phpmyAdmin from scratch you are kind of stuck.

So, I install php and mysql, anything else I need to do? Is the php install supposed to only have 1 dll in it? the php_mysql.dll that version 5 wanted so badly isn't in there, just what looks to be a singled compiled version.

Honestly, I'm not stupid, but I sure feel that way after today.

Fred