[dstoler]

No problem man! Wish I could give more. You would NOT believe what just happened to me. I was setting up the new database with my remote server and sure enough it kicked back the error you were talking about with an ip address I had never seen before. An ip address that I have been trying to get from Nfoservers for 6 weeks now because I knew that was the problem but they kept turning me down. I am an amateur and they knew it so they would just dismiss me and point fingers at my webhost. I kept going and going learning so much in the process. It is working like a charm now with my original setup (bluehost database connected to my local home server and my remote nfoserver.) I want to thank you Darth for helping me out. Off to send an email to support thanking them for exchanging 50 emails and 3 pages of forums with me and countless chats when I knew the problem all along. sigh....