Rick,

I'm trying not to be a half-witt, but I think I am failing.

I replaced my relative paths with the path in the directory structure of the server to the files. That path on my server is /home/www/massassimilation/ubbthreads/ . that didn't quite work either.

I guess I am missing something really obvious here.

In my trials this time, I decided to stick a "/" at the end of the path, and got this error message on the page previous to the Admin page [that I am not getting to].

Warning: readfile("/ubbthreads//includes/header-insert.php") - No such file or directory in /home/www/massassimilation/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 144

This is really interesting (while clearly also not being the solution), because this time, it references "/home/www/massassimilation" which I have not specified in config.inc.php. As you can see, I am just grasping for straws here.

I would just shut up and buy the product right away except that I need to make sure it works with my hosting situation.