PS: Don't be depressed if everyone's putting your tutorial down ... phpnuke seems like a really rockin' tool to use on a form site, and, yeah it can be a bitch to get up and running (like mine ... grrrrr). And what I meant when I asked if you ran things 777'd on your production webserver was just that - e.g. if a random user who connects to your site can wipe out your database, that's a bad thing. I'm sure, though, that you've fixed permissions before hosting your site, though, so this likely isn't <read: shouldn't be> a concern.