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Stupid Yahoo! I finally stumbled onto something in their help topics that says to use “mysql” for the host name on php configuration files instead of “localhost”. Immensely confusing considering that “localhost” is specified all over phpMyAdmin (which is installed directly by Yahoo).

For future reference, for anyone using Yahoo! Geocites pro hosting, remember this.

I have created the database, but I did run into some problems creating a database user. Just as the directions explained, I went to “Add New User” and attempted to add a user that would have all privleges to the database. However, when I tried to create a new user, it came up with error messages. And so, what I did was the give my primary login (the one I use to login to phpMyAdmin) access privileges to the “wordpress” database, and thus on the wp_config.php file, I have that primary login name and password. I suspect this could be part of the trouble, but I’m at a loss on how to fix it.