Okay. I have tried the following with no success — looking for ideas.
1) Ensured correct wp-config DB_HOST location — even deleted mysql, recreated it and tried again.
2) Tried walking through the CHMOD instructions in tis post — twice
3) Attempted to comment-out lines 53 and 54 in the wp-settings file as sugegsted in another post.
4) Attempted all of the above on a linux-php server account and an upgraded cgi account.
I’m going nuts and very close to dumping wordpess — (I should dump godaddy, but hey I have a year to go on the contract) thoughts?