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The default settings.php is located at sites/default/settings.php, not in the root of your drupal installation.  I have no idea why one of the server techs at my hosting company moved the settings.php into the root, but that was what my previous confusion was.

As a side-note, if your moving from a production to a development server, make sure that you setup your host in settings.php to localhost.  As a corollary, if you're moving from development to production, make sure you set your host field from youraddress.com (or youraddress.hostingaddress.com) from localhost.  It would be nice if there was a field somewhere in drupal settings to handle this, so that you didn't have to snoop through the settings.php to find/set it.  However though, this is likely not possible since drupal pulls everything like this from databases and it has to have these settings in order to see the database.  Just food for thought.

I also normally find it useful to look at code snippets rather than trying to understand what someone said, so here's an example of what your database line in settings.php should look like if your settings up a generally basic development server. 

$databases = array ( 
  'default' =&gt; 
     array( 
        'default' =&gt; 
         array (
            'database' =&gt; '##Your_database_name##', 
            'username' =&gt; '##your_database_username#', #comment &amp; store old user from production server here for safe keeping
            'password' =&gt; '##your_database_password##', #comment &amp; store old pw from production server here for safe keeping
            'host' =&gt; 'localhost',   #comment and store production database url here
            'driver' =&gt; 'mysql', 
            'port' =&gt; '',  #localhost shouldn't normally need a port, but your production sever likely does, so comment and store that on the side here.
            'prefix' =&gt; ''
         ), 
    ), 
);