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Server Info tab is correct.

The value (no value) for open_basedir matches mine. This is not causing your problems. It lies with your host account configuration. Follow the recommendations of others that use a folder inside your web root.
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Steve et al.

I followed the advice and placed the trust path under my root and added a htaccess file per GI Joe. I had to be careful to remove Protector and undo the edits in the mainfile.php in reverse, so that I could (per instructions) set the trust path, then install Protector, then put in the include check statements...

I got the same result.

That told me that the problem had nothing to do with where it was placed.

So it made me look for the precheck & postcheck php files (they were where they should be), so as you have often been right, Steve, I rechecked the typing... and there it was - in my efforts to ensure I had the correct statement I had copied and pasted lines, somehow I had copied and pasted 'precheck/php' into BOTH includes...

I am extremely embarrassed, to compound this, because I had cut and paste I didn't of course consider the statements could be wrong... though I had looked and two others also looked, we never caught it.

So I unwound everything again, put the trust path back outside my root and it's all fine!

Thank you so much, I have green lights everywhere and am eager to proceed.

Anyone else who has protector install problems, I hope I can help them.

Thanks again
Z

I'm glad is finally all sorted out!