Thank you for your response – I contacted Jumpline and they gave me the IP address for the SQL server but said to leave the setting at “localhost”..unfortunately I’m no closer to getting WP installed. It really seemed like a straight-forward/easy install… I feel pretty certain that the parameters I inserted are correct and the issue is with the DB I created. besides creating the DB are you also supposed to create all the tables or is that done automatically during the install?
Any other suggestions?