Hi Howard,
I just posted a message to Rick. I decided, since my Moodle site is so sparsely populated anyway, to just rebuild it from scratch. But, again, I am so new to this wonderful world of virtual dedicated servers (with totally different absolute paths to Moodle directories from what I knew and loved before with shared hosting at GoDaddy) that I'm getting stuck. I was stuck before trying to enter the right parameters into the config.php file and I'm stuck again trying to avoid the problem by creating a new Moodle site from scratch. Rick had an idea about sending you my config. php file. Well here it is for both of you to take a look at. Don't laugh to loud, please. I told you I'm new at this game. By the way, I checked the "critical paths" list of path information in GoDaddy, and what I have typed in here seems to be right. Or is the problem in both cases (that of my already existing Moodle site I wanted to change from where it is on the shared hosting plan to its new home on the virtual dedicated server and the new Moodle site I am trying to build from scratch, but with new data paths that are totally foreign to me) simply one of where the moodle data is sitting and where it should be?