Nevermind...

Fetch didn't upload my "mt.cfg" in Text mode. I fixed that and it worked.

...at least I'm tenacious.

I get the following error:

>**** WARNING: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation
>(.) or string at lib/MT/ObjectDriver/DBI/mysql.pm line 26.
>
>
>An error occurred while loading data:
>
>Connection error: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost'
>(Using password: NO)

and here's the mt.cfg data:

>DataSource mt_directory_here
>ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
>Database mtdb
>DBUser mtuser

and the password is in mt-db-pass.cgi. Why is it trying to log in as the root user? I don't have root access to my MySQL server. I've provided the username in the cfg file. I even manually created the tables in the database manually (using the file in the schemas directory). Also I've tried deleting the database and creating a new one with a never-before-used-name & user. What's going on?