Thank you catacaustic for pointing me in the right direction.
2ninerniner2, I followed your instructions to the T, and WP gave me a message that the config file didn’t look like a config file, but that it could help. I’m guessing that my file was somehow corrupted, so I followed the screen prompts by filling in three test boxes and Bingo, I’m up and running.
Thank you both for your time and expertise. Have a great evening!
Thank you catacaustic, Although my problem is still not solved, I did at least see that I had not granted all of the proper privileges, and I took care of that, but I did not see the option to ‘Create database with same name and grant all privileges.’ I did double and triple check the wp-config file settings, and they appear to be correct.
Thank you alchymyth. I’ll go there and post.