When I installed my first WordPress blog on this site, I used the Fantastico program that came with Cpanel. This seemed to go fine until I tried moving the mm blog from mistymornings.net/blogs to mistymornings.net/blogs/mm.
The move itself went fine, although editing permalinks in the database was a little tedious. The fun started once I tried to get Fantastico to remember the new path of the old install. No matter what I tried Fantastico refused to accept the new path.
A good hour later I discovered a seemingly arbitrary limitation of Fantastico: it can only install WordPress in the root directory, or one folder below root*.
The decision to stop using Fantastico to install WordPress followed immediately after discovering this fact and the ‘manual’ install of this blog, the second on mistymornings.net went very smoothly.
So, the first big thumbs down from the GOM blog goes to Fantastico for wasting more than sixty minutes of my time, because of an arbitrary design decision.
* I didn’t bother to check if this limit in Fantastico affects other program installs besides WordPress.