WordPress MU

I decided to give Wordpress MU a shot to play with buddypress. I had wordpress 2.8 installed in the root directory and moved it to a sub directory folder. I then installed wordpress MU 2.7.1 in the root. After installing I decided to move it to a sub directory (wpmu) and the install had a few errors.

I figured I messed something up and decided to install WPMU from scratch in the new sub directory but, when i unzip a fresh copy into the directory it auto detects the old settings and has the same issues. Since this is a fresh install what file is auto detecting the old settings?

did you remove all of the old files before unzipping?

and are there any stray files in the root?

Yep everything was deleted. Really weird!

Did this ever get resolved??? I am having the same issue and cant figure it out. I have even done a fresh download...

browser or proxy cache remembering previous settings and acting accordingly?

Check for hidden files, too. The .htaccess file won't always show up and other hidden files might be causing problems.