Many thanks for this help. Didn't think about the cookie business; will check into this. Now another "small" problem with respect to GoDaddy hosting if I might. Though they do allow the hosting of version 2.3.2 of Moodle, which works just fine with their automated MySQL 5.0 install, to use version 2.3.2 it's necessary to use it with version 5.1.33 of MySQL. Well, the problem is I am on what they call, a bit hyperbolically/euphemistically, the Ultimate Shared Linux hosting plan, meaning that I have no way of getting to certain directories higher up (and hidden) thatn /html to install applications. They are suggesting that I upgrade to dedicated hosting or virtual dedicated, but they are asking a bit too much to ask me to upgrade just because they limit the version of MySQL offered to the general public to version 5.0. What I was wondering is whether there might be a way to manually install MySQL 5.1.33 on a directory at the same level as my .../html/moodle232 directory in my hosting account itself. (Normally I noticed that the 5.0 database sits on another server entirely and is pointed to during manual install of Moodle 2.2.3) Since this is a test sandbox site I am playing around with here with a completely different domain name I don't think I'll break much. But it would be nice to know whether you think this possible before spending the couple hours extracing the 5.1.33 zip and uploading the result to my GoDaddy host.
by Gary Lebowitz.