When I try to save a new entry, this shows up above the entry box:

"Serendipity is now saving your entry, creating trackbacks and performing possible XML-RPC calls. This may take a while.."

The entry never gets posted on my blog. The same thing happened when trying to edit a previous entry. Please ...

I have Serendipity 1.5.3 up and running but when I try to log into the Admin Suite I continually get:
"You appear to have entered an invalid username or password"
I checked the dbhost name and password in the serendipity_config_local.inc.php, which do not work.
The user name and password I entered ...