Does Not Compute when I'm trying to edit the permalinks

I have no plugins installed. it is literally a fresh install. I haven’t done anything but change password, setup an RSS feed, and a few other ‘clerical’ settings.

I started working on getting things set up to format the blog for the site, and get things moving, and this was what I got.

I’m 90% positive that it is hosted on a Linux Apache server.

Hello guys.

I got busy doing other things here, and had put getting the blog together off to the side. Now, I’m back working on it, and I just updated to V3.1 of the software.

I’m still having the same problem when I try to deviate away from using the default style of links, and move to a permalink structure. Whenever I select a permalink structure, I get an Error: 400.

Another problem that I’m having: I’ve been trying to get everything else running so that I can launch the blog soon. When I try and follow any of the RSS links I’m greeted with an XML Error.

Error on line 57 at column 14: AttValue: ” or ‘ expected.

The first thing that I did was to make sure that it wasn’t the template that I have been working on. I changed from the theme that I have been editing to the “Default” theme, and I removed my index page that I had created and installed the base index page, thus removing all of my work from the equation.

The odd thing is, even with the default theme and index page installed, it is going to a page that looks like my theme, and not loading the entire page.

For reference, the blog that I’m setting up is at

http://www.glenssurplus.com/news/

Any help that you guys could give me with either problem would be appreciated.

The permalinks at this point aren’t as big of a problem as the broken RSS links. I can deal with not having “nice” links for now, but the broken RSS links are really halting the launch.

Thanks again!