Ooopps, I just figured it out!
Okay, for the other novices in the woods here such as myself:
I followed the instructions I had TOO MUCH to the letter. When I modified the config.inc.php file, I entered what was in the instructions $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'newRootPassword' instead of what the actual new password. When I replaced 'newRootPassword' with the new passord, wha-la! php
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