Ay,... why does stuff like this always happen to me?
thank you dougl for your continuing effort

i'm not sure how to check these...

will i need to reinstall this again?

ok, so i went and did the installation, and i created the mysql directories...
but now, after i finish, all i get is a blank page... both the index and the serendipity_admin file... whats going on? how do i fix this???? please let me know soon, thank you