Installing Drupal

OK, I am losing my mind here. I have installed Drupal and it seems to come up ok. But when I click on the link to create the first account, it takes me to my home page. Ihave checked my htaccess file and the DirectoryIndex setting only lists index.php. Is there somewhere else that I need to check?

Please help me I am so close.

Okay, so me and my sysadmin got drupal up and running...

The first page (where it tells you to create an initial account) loads properly. I click on the 'create account' link, it goes to the create account page.

I try to attempt to create an account... after clicking create, it redirects me back to the default page with the user account name I created prefilled out in the login box.

According to my sysadmin (as I don't have direct access to the MySQL db) the user table is empty and I don't receive a confirmation email...

In modifying the xtemplate.xtmpl file to reorganize the tables, I'm getting a the error above. Unfortunately, Drupal.org's forum rules keeps terminating my attempts to paste the actual code here, citing 'suscipicious entry'. So I'm not quite sure how clear this will be without the code, but...

Reordering the tables in xtemplate.xtmpl gives me two errors:

parse: blockname [header.search_box] does not exist, and
parse: blockname [header.blocks] does not exist

Hello there :)
I'm totally new with Drupal and I'm going to install it.
But...I really can't understand how to do it...
The manual talks about commands like

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.*
        TO nobody@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

.

But, where have they to be entered?

I haven't found any discussion on this:

Where is it possible to edit the template so that the username does not appear at the top of the navigation block?

(in other words, on this site, my username appears in bold grey immediately under the search box, above 'Create Content', etc. I would like to edit this behavior out of my own site.)

Hi all

I have installed drupal and changed in my conf.php the urls to my domain name, but when I now connect I get this error in my browser :(
any help?

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'flappy.is-a-geek.com' (115) in /var/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'flappy.is-a-geek.com' (115)