@notthepainter
Thank you! You solved my problem. I had already upgraded at that point though so I couldnt create a new user before the upgrade.
I so did not want to clear my cookies.
So after following the directions on upgrading exactly, I then made one further change. When I went to do the upgrade.php part I created a new user on my Macintosh, logged in as that user, then went to Safari and did the upgrade.
That way I could have a cookie-free environment.
Following your example, since I use Firefox as my main browser, I simply opened up Internet Explorer and was able to log in right away. Not wanting to delete all my cookies in Firefox I just went to the Cookies config section under Options and deleted only the cookies for my own website and left the rest there.
As soon as I removed the cookies for my own blog I was able to log in.
weirdly, I added the ‘secret keys’ to my config file and then everything ran smoothly. very odd indeed,
