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I just found out that .htaccess will recreate itself and shut down my blog. Is anyone here familiar with the backupwordpress plugin? What am I doing wrong?

I deleted everything and tried again from scratch. All’s well now!

I find it interesting that even though my blog has been replaced by a blank white screen, I’m still getting email notification of posted comments, spam of course!

I deleted my theme called “connections” from the themes folder (…wp-content/themes/). Now there are just the two included themes–classic, default.
When I go to Presentation->Theme it doesn’t show any themes. Likewise when I go to Plugins it shows nothing although I noticed when uploading Version 2.3.2 that this version includes a plugin called akismet.
Is there a way, besides using Admin panel, to specify which theme WordPress should use? Any more ideas?

I have an account through the college: http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~psimmond

I unzipped WordPress, opened wp-config-sample.php and added:
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘Blog’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘psimmond’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘*******’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
(This is the name and password I use to ftp files to my account.)
Then I renamed the file as wp-config.php created a folder called “Blog” and ftp’d all of the unzipped WordPress files to it. Now if I go to:
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~psimmond/Blog
I get a white box that says: WordPress
Error establishing a database connection…
Does this have something to do with SQL–whatever that is?