Hi Dan O. Thanks so much for answering my post. Now to answer your questions...
"Has it ever worked? If not, I might suspect incorrect file or directory permissions."
No, this is my first setup and I wanted to make sure everything was running good before any mods. So it's a standard load/defaults right now. Additionally, I have direct access to the web server, so all I had to do was copy the files into the cgi-bin, go through the debug.pl And as an initial setup, I tried to open up all files' permissions to read/write/execute, until everything is running, and then after that, I normally start chmod all the files for security. So that's the current state of files. It does seem like the files are automagically going to "hidden" attribute, so I'll check permissions propogation and try to stop that for now.
** New events added gives a standard success message, but doesn't display in the calendar **
Are the events being saved in the event.txt or scheule.txt files?
Oddly enough... YES! All my test events are in there. Same with the users.txt file. They are all in there, but not showing up in Admin for user permissions settings, etc.
This really is strange for me... I just don't know 'why' the users and events are not showing up in the displays. I'm looking forward to your reply (or anyone else who might know what I did wrong). It's FRIDAY!!!!!! :-)