Using GO Daddy hosting, I was on a Windows server… Asked them to switch it to Linux… Problem solved. Thanks for all your help though.
I guess plugin manager is not the proper term… I meant the plugin administrator that comes with wordpress, that lets you activate and deactivate plugins you want to use.
I realized that my admin panel isn’t finding my plugins directory or the my-hacks.php file… I’m not sure why, I didn’t change any of the default path settings… It is finding my themes directory though which is weird. Anyone have any ideas?