Rob... really? Did you read my question? They screwed up something and I'm hear trying to get some tips. Do you really think I'm not in discussion with them? Of course I am... but they're somehow dumbfounded.

DrByte, thanks. Of course they haven't done any of the steps listed on that link. Nor should they, because its not migration from one host to another by myself but rather from one physical server to another on the same host. And this isn't the first time... this is pretty routine and I shouldn't have to do anything other than put it down for maintenance on the old server and reactivate on the new. But this time I just get db errors. I've checked the credentials and even deleted and recreated (and re-permissioned) the user just in case that got corrupted. I checked in configure.php and confirmed all that info is correct.

I tried that cache fixing utility and all I get is the same "can't connect" page. But that gave me the clue to go into phymyadmin and clear the sessions... but I couldn't get into phpmyadmin. So there's something wrong there. Back the host.

Now back to Rob, who will undoubtedly say "see, I told you - its with the host". And no kidding. Obviously its with the host... the discussion here was to give me tips on how to help them help me. Now I have something. hopefully it gets me somewhere.