[allan grossman]

I might have an idea.

I was just thinking that the fact that the password field didn't show up in the graphical interface *and* it isn't being passed to the news server but shows up in phpMyAdmin (I guess) would lead me to believe maybe the password field is either misspelled, the wrong type or in the wrong location.

The table type for nntp_groups should be ISAM, not MyISAM. It won't work if the table type is wrong (I don't know why, but I tried it the other way and the script fails).

If the table type is incorrect you can fix it by running this query against the database -

ALTER TABLE nntp_groups TYPE = ISAM;

Inside the nntp_groups table the password field is spelled "password" and is case-sensitive.

If it's not a spelling error, a typo or a misconfigured table I'm stumped, bitg - but I think the fact that the password isn't being sent and *also* isn't showing up in the graphical interface is significant.