Thanks. That's why it seemed wierd, because those are the first things I would check. But I went back and did it again. This time EUREKA! The "News" page, being the default mod for top page, I decided to to check it and yep, that's where the log-in block was disabled. I don't recall even tweaking that one (I generally never mess with it). Oh well...back in business. Happy Xoopsing to all.

I'm getting something wierd. After I logout, the page that is shown has neither a User Menu block or a Login block.

I just uninstalled/reinstalled and it happened again after reconfiguruing a bunch of settings and setting up a few users. Could be I did something dumb that I can't see, but it's only a problem on this test installation. I have a working site in a subdirectory that works fine (been up over 2 years) and I definitely don't want to mess that one up.

Right now, I can still login from user.php and get the admin menu. But on my previous install when this occurred it didn't show the admin menu button. And I checked through phpadmin and the admin userid was at level 5. While I was there I also emptied the session, but didn't help.

Would being installed in the root dir cause this type of problem? I checked mainfile.php and the site urls seem right.

I'm worn out--time for a cheeseburger and strong coffee!

This is the line in the style.css file that controls the background color of the table header (<th>)that is used for "categories":

td#centercolumn th {background-color: #2F5376; color: #FFFFFF; vertical-align: middle;}

It's a little further down than the plain "th" line.