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Permissions seem to be fine. The modules are in the right directory. I checked that first. Just to be double-sure, though, I changed the name of the "contact" module, which I haven't installed yet and which is in the same directory as the others which are not showing up, to "contact-new", and, when I refreshed the admin/modules page, it disappeared! Seems to me it should still have shown up in the uninstalled modules section, but it didn't.
This sounds like a bug to me, but what do I know? I do know, though, that I have a lot of work to do, and I am stuck and stumped. Do the developers monitor this board?
JFM
