No way! It's the amazing FabianX from the RAMDisk thread.
Well thanks for the advice my friend. It seems I do have it working and it's a real thrill to finally have both my old static sites and a bouncing baby PHP site going as well.
You've saved my much grief and a long journey has come to an end. Now a new one begins --intro to database management and PHP mods.
Just for the record, when looking through the file that comes with the DDClient-3.6.3 tarball called sample-etc-rd.d-init-d_ddclient I didn't see the exact line that you referred to.

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ddclient
However, I did find something that look similar enough in concept which was a line that looked like this

Code:
PATH=/usr/sbin: ${PATH}
And I changed that to /knoppix/home which was the path where I had put the main ddclient script. I already had /etc/ddclient.conf in place and When I ran the script from the home directory, sure enough my sites were updated.
Success is success and I wouldn't have had the faith to keep plugging away withour your encouragement. Thank you once again for your kind help.