I have the forum all setup and everything is working just dandy  

the only problem is i cant get past the darn index.asp page ... when i try to login using Administrator for the user name .. and letmein for the password , it takes me back to the damn start page  what gives here?  can someone answer me on this? or am i going have to wait ages for an response?

You guys have a real good forum , just too bad you cant get past the first page. i know its not a problem at my end ...  i have tested so many forums with my server and all of them work   is this a known issue? cause i cant even find a topic on this issue, if there is i certainly cant seem to find it   i would really appreciate a response to a detailed guide on how to login and setup my forum...  thank you

index.asp, you must be running a different forum as there is no index.asp page, unless you mean the default.asp page.

Check your setup as you should be OK.

If you are just refering to the fact you can't login then make sure that you have cookies enabled on your web browser, also IE does have issues with cookies unless you connect directly to your site, eg. don't use frames, IP masking, domain name masking etc. If you do feel it maybe a cookie problem try using Mozilla or another browser as they don't have the cookie problem IE suffers from, if you find you can login using another browser then you need to change the way your site is running so that IE can correctly use cookies.