Good afternoon Michael:
Thank you for the reply. I’m using Plesk 8.6.0, so it’s pretty up to date. I deleted and re-installed the mySQL database, then used 7-Zip instead of WinRAR to get fresh downloads of WP 2.8.4 and my theme. Did everything else like normal–all sat. I don’t know what specifically did it-DB settings and/or extraction–but smoothing sailing. Thank you again!