[RESOLVED] phpmyadmin installation troubles

[StrangerInBeijing]

ABORTED...Settled for MySQL Administrator.

I removed xampp from my machine, and installed Apache (ok), MySQL (ok) and PHP (ok).
All works fine, so I created a "phpmyadmin" folder in my "www" folder, and extracted phpmyadmin there.
Copied and renamed config.inc.php and set auth_type to config, and set the password and config.
First time I tried http://localhost/phpmyadmin, I got the login screen (that time I used cookies) and had to log in. But after that I get redirected to "http://www.localhost.com/phpmyadmin/" ... ***?

After setting the auth_type to config, it just take me directly to www.localhost.com/phpmyadmin (this is all local!!!)

I went so far to copy a coworkers phpmyadmin (done by wampserver) directly, changing the user and password to suit my machine...same result, which make me suspect the problem is with apache.
But then, I copied another site to my www folder and that run as expected.

Anyone??? (yes, i added the php folder and php/ext to my path, i commented the mysql, mysqli dll's in php.ini, i configured everything to work jsut fine (remember apache, mysql and php works just fine)