Hi Ric, Thanks for the help... for some reason it still didn't work. I found a mini-fix but ran into another problem. In the same directory of the mqsetup.php I noticed there is a mysql_password file that contained the default root password. Even after changing the password when opening the file, the password still was "root". I deleted the file, followed your steps to point to the ini file, restarted, and that file reappeared but this time it was blank. From this point, security check said it was secure. phpmyadmin still won't load up. You mentioned something about mysql ports, but I've yet to even get that far! I haven't done much, basically changed the other passwords. I'm about to start from scratch. Would you suggest using a different version of US?