I’m with you Davidlind – I’m giving up. Maybe Movable Type is easier. 🙂
I’ve had the same problems that what seems like a 1000 other people have had with the 5 miinute start up. I cannot communicate with the database. I too have tried entering the password from the database admin screen and have no problems – works fine.
I’ve read and tried the godaddy tutorial from granny, I’ve loaded and unloaded the wordpress folder onto the server twice. I’ve trashed the cache. I’ve started from scratch 4 times. Still no luck. What is sick is, I got this to work for another blog site I installed, once I figured out the hostname had to be included.
I’m at a loss as what to do next. Any ideas would be appreciated.