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Thanks for the offer (which really does seem very generous — I’m impressed!). However, I realized that AN Hosting has enough manual control to let you do a manual installation and I gave it a shot. Happily it seems to work perfectly, and I haven’t even had to touch any permissions yet. It looks like Fantastico probably was at fault.

I had never actually uploaded them in the first place — I had used the control panel to do it for me using fantastico (some suite of mysql things).

That said, I gave it a go and downloaded the package, deleted the server versions of the folders you mentioned and replaced them with my freshly unzipped versions. Sadly, there was no change. I still can’t add categories and still can’t delete comments via the comments section of the wp-admin (it looks like it is deleting them, but when I reload it I see that they are still really there).

Any other ideas?