I’m running on a localhost environment using mamp pro and mac 10.4.11. under the admin menu the only choices that appear for magento connect are ‘manage extensions’ and ‘package extensions’ there is no sign of ‘available remote’ nor ‘PEAR configuration’. when i click on ‘manage extensions’ i get ‘http://localhost:8888/magento/index.php/admin/extensions_local/’ for a moment, then it changes to

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