(Sorry for breaking the thread. For some reason I'm not receiving email 
from the list. I pulled off replies below out of the list archive.)

> I assume you tried http://localhost:5984/_utils/
>   

I have. No happiness.

I can't find a _utils anywhere. Makes me wonder if something when wrong 
in the build. I used the Windows binary installer 
<http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Windows_binary_installer>.

> Ping localhost to see if it really resolves to 127.0.0.1 and not to IPv6:s 
> loopback address which is [::1].
>   

C:\Program Files\curl-7.19.4>ping localhost

Pinging 0609-miller.dallas.sil.org [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms