Well, for anyone who’s been struggling, the WordPress support forums are a great help, but Network Solutions aren’t. Why doesn’t a big hosting company like that have a fact sheet that explains how to install wordpress?

Anyway, turns out (with me anyway) i’m one of the 1% that has to change local host. It worked when i changed ‘localhost’ to the address of my mysql thingy i.e.

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

became

define(‘DB_HOST’, ’205.XXX.XXX.XX’);