BobS, Thanks a lot for replying in such detail. Thanks for taking the time. I already have a DB installed from myphpadmin and a user but I'm going to do as you say just the same. Please understand that I'm new at this, know some html and css and english... I guess you did not mention the following because it is self-evident nbut I need to check anyway: how about inserting this part between creating the db and the user ??? << INSERT INTO `jos_users` VALUES (62, 'Administrator', 'admin', 'your-email@email.com', '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3', 'Super Administrator', 0, 1, 25, '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '', ''); INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_aro` VALUES (10,'users','62',0,'Administrator',0); INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map` VALUES (25,'',10); >> I got that from a Joomla installation manual. It needs to be done right? They say do it as an SQL Query, I did that as well on other occasions. Or maybe what you do would make this redundant? <quote> Then I make sure that the privileges for that user are correct, which is a key part. Using myPhpAdmin, I create the DB, then go back a level (the home point) and select privileges to Add a new User. On this form, put in the name, select Host as local, and put in the password (2 fields); then hit GO.</quote> In any case, when I do it, I get this: <<Your SQL query has been executed successfully>> Which I'm sure is a good thing Also, while fooling around in php my admin I looked at another DB (than my Joomla one) mysql (which has 16 items) I looked at servers and within that "ports" which is different in many ways from all other tables in that section. Its the only one that is not char(64) and not utf8_general_ci and has an attribute of none? Is this normal? This should be set at port 3306 correct? <quote>The connection is specified in the configuration.php file and requires four parameters"</quote> Can I just delete the other db and make changes to the existing configuration.php? Once more, thank you very much, I'll be back with the results shortly. RDT P.S. Tear paper, not your hair. PPS, The paper was the first to go!