[cacti-user] cacti login does nothing

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Fresh install of 0.8.6g and logging in does nothing. I put in
admin/admin, but instead of getting greeted with "you must change you
password", I'm simply spit back to the login page again, with no
error. If I attempt a login with the wrong credentials, it spits an
error, but admin/admin dies silently and I'm presented with the login
page again. Any ideas?

node1# uname -a
FreeBSD node1.sjc01.mzima.net 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun
May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005   =20
ro...@ha...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
node1# php -v
PHP 4.4.1 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Nov 21 2005 17:15:48)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
node1# mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 82 to server version: 4.1.15

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> use cacti;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> select * from user_log;
+----------+---------+---------------------+--------+--------------+
| username | user_id | time                | result | ip           |
+----------+---------+---------------------+--------+--------------+
| admin    |       1 | 2005-11-28 12:20:06 |      1 | 64.235.xxx.6 |
| admin    |       1 | 2005-11-28 12:20:09 |      1 | 64.235.xx.6 |
| admin    |       1 | 2005-11-28 12:20:40 |      1 | 64.235.xx.6 |
| admin    |       1 | 2005-11-28 15:58:10 |      1 | 64.235.xxx.6 |
+----------+---------+---------------------+--------+--------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> \q
Bye
node1# cat /usr/local/www/cacti/log/cacti.log
11/28/2005 12:19:27 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] ERROR: Cannot connect to
MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please make sure you have specified a
valid MySQL   database name in 'include/config.php'.
node1#

thanks,
aaron.glenn

P.S. I distinctly remember a debug option in configure.php, but I
can't find one. has that been depreciated or am I just imagining
things?