Rather Odd Question

[vetteguy]

I have a php/MySQL question for anyone so well versed and inclined. There's a Q&A site called Conversawang that offers their software for download. I have recently set up a site and I was going to play around with their Q&A software for fun. It isn't an installation package, it's basically just all of the source to get it running if you can. I have gotten everything working except the administration part of it. There is a separate section where the admins can log in to answer questions. There is a table that holds the user information, and one field is "admin_flag", a char(1) datatype. I set up a user in the table and set the flag to "Y", but it won't let me in. I am really new to the whole php type thing (not to SQL though) so I'm not sure how it's looking for the authorized users. The brief overview of the software mentioned something about a .htaccess and .htpasswd file, but there was only a .htaccess (and I figured since there was an admin_flag in the users table that would be to hold this information). By any chance, is there ANYONE who has looked at this particular software and/or got it running? If so, could you tell me how you did it? Thanks!