Thanks for the incite, I see what you are saying. The ‘AUTHORIZATION’ key of the getallheaders() function doesn’t exist if PHP is being run as CGI, only as Apache Module. I was able to find some replacements for this, (one is actually in the podpress_premium_funtions.php at the top when it checks to see if the getallheaders() function exists) however I was unable to get any of those to work. This was probably because AUTHORIZATION is missing. I also looked at Dreamhost, and as far as I can tell, they no longer offer you the option in the panel to switch between CGI and Apache Module. Still looking for any ideas. If I was more PHP literate I might consider rewriting the podPress_validateLogin() function to use those $_SERVER variables. There has to be some way to ninja this thing into authenticating properly.
