Trouble installing

Hmmmm. 

I had a similar situation with my initial installation, which is
MT 2.51 on Debian LINUX (woody).

My situation : 

* Once I filled in my BLOGGER info in preferences, I saw
  my BLOGS show up in the drop-down list on the right. 
* I didn't see any of my previous posts

What got me working was to specify my local filespace
in the Preferences. 

Once I did that I got my previous 5 posts and also
was able to post myself (!yay!)

One of my main interests is being able to use 
https/SSL for the posting process, as we have a 
MT blog that our security folk tell me has 
to be https/SSL. 

Most of the blogger clients I've tried choke on 
https. 

Anyone else interested in this topic? 

BTW, I *do not* have an "official" certificate for my server
yet; I use the self-signed/self-generated cert I did with 
Apache. 

Charlie Lindahl
Texas A&M University System
Health Science Center