Thanks very much for your quick reply and helpful information, moshu. Following the instructions in your post, I
logged on to my host
accessed mySQL Administration
clicked on the items in the database
dropped the tables.
The “wordpress.1” was a remnant from the first install before I knew what I was doing (relatively speaking), so after reinstalling directly into the root, it’s now working fine. All my problems were resolved.
Thanks a million!
