On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:07:22 -0500, "Tom Holmes Jr." tom@tomholmes.net wrote :

Now I get to the page where I create the first account .... I create the first account ... and now I get to the page where it says Access Denied and the first user can't login at all or even to the screen where I set that first password.

Try deleting your cookies. I had a similar issue what was caused by having a drupal cookie for .domain.tld when I was accessing .server.domain.tld.

Pat