I still feel there is something scripted-in that is preventing the "forum" folder from loading.

I'll given you an example. In an effort to figure this out, I placed the "forum" folder where I have my blog and gallery folders, residing respectively at http:www.paduaprephotos.com/blog/, and at http://www.paduaprephotos.com/gallery/. Both the blog and gallery load when I put in their web addresses.

However, when I put the web address of http://www.paduaprephotos.com/forum/ in a browser address, the web address mysteriously reverts to www.paduaprep.com/forum/. And I get an error message of :

"Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/users/web/b672/pow.orlow/htdocs/paduaprep.com/forum/functions_forums.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php-5.3.13/lib/php') in /hermes/waloraweb081/b672/pow.orlow/htdocs/paduaprep.com/MusePP/forum/scripts/cfrm.inc.php on line 24"

[Note the different names of www.paduaprep.com and paduaprephotos.com]

Does that make any sense to you?

Thanks.