Hi toherangi,
Thanks for your quick response. Yes in my darkest memories I think that is the problem that godaddy does not like the local host thing. I did go into the account and found the database details that gave the host name and replaced the local host with that but still got an error that it can not connect with the database. But ya know what after wasting most of the day with this I really think it's a godaddy glitch. I'm just gonna give up on this and do the quick install from the godaddy site like I did the last time and it worked. Thanks for your response but I have wasted enough of my day on this simple problem. I give up!