jlg

It *looks* like I have solved it. AFAIK the problem seems to be with the password storage features of the various browsers that I have been using (Mozilla, Firefox [basically the same browser core] and Konqueror). All of these browsers try to store a password on the browser so that you don’t have to use it when logging in to a specific web site. If I choose either “store the password” or “don’t store the password”, I can’t log in. But if I choose “never store the password for this site” then I can log in successfully. Wierd.
Thanks for all of your help folks, I appreciate it. WordPress is a great program.

This is an intranet running on Linux. Apache and PHP are running on RedHat 9. My browser is running on a laptop with Mandrake 10.
The system is not using https. (But just for kicks, I did make the https modifications that others have suggested. They didn’t help.)
As for the passwords, I tried it both ways. I verified that the md5 of the admin password that WordPress provides is correct. But then I actually changed the admin password directly to something else. Unfortunately neither thing worked.
I’ve tried logging in using Firefox 9, Mozilla 1.6 and Konqueror 3.2 (the kde browser). They all do the same thing.