that was it! All fixed. Thanks, I’m so relieved it was an easy thing.
no, because I can’t figure out how to make one with GoDaddy’s interface! So I thought I had to make a file as that was the only thing that says “new”. Ok, I’ll make a folder and ftp to the location. Thanks, duh.
I just figured it out. I didn’t enable the permissions to write to the blog.dir. So I just reinstalled and now it’s working. Thanks for looking and appreciate your help!