[support] Installation Issue with MySQL

[Tom Holmes Jr.]

I've got Drupal working on one or two other machines because the 
database was local.

Now I've got an instance of Drupal I want to install ... but the 
database is on another server .....
I put in the database, database user, user password, the new server name 
and port .... and it STILL tries to connect to localhost like it is 
NEVER getting the name of the server I entered in.

I'm about to go into the install.mysql.inc file and just hard-code it at 
this point ... just to get it setup ....

Any ideas?     Thanks!

                                                Tom