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I edited my posts as the code snippet should have been uncommented.

All we can do is to make troubleshooting suggestions one at a time and hope, as you did, people try and solve it from interpreting these suggestions, well done.

I am pleased that it is now working and you have had some insight into the inner workings of XAMPP.

Thanks for the feedback.

Good luck and best wishes.

LOL, I may be back but let's see how it goes. My next obstacle is probably creating a fresh blank database, user/pass, and configuring magento to find it. But I'm going to need some food for that, and I expect I can find the answers here or in the manual if I have trouble. This forum seems quite active based on the number of posts!