I’ll repost what I mentioned to Mike in my PM just in case anyone else is wondering:
It sounds like the base URL for the unsecure/secure sections is still set to the development domain. You’ll have to open up phpMyAdmin (from cPanel) and edit the rows in the core_config_data table.
When you click on that table name, select the SQL tab and run this query:
SELECT * FROM `core_config_data` WHERE `value` LIKE '% http:// %'
NOTE: Magento is messing with the code I’m pasting, make sure you REMOVE the space after the first % sign, and before the second % sign!
You should get 1-2 results back. Just edit those and update the values. What these rows are, are the fields that would show up in System -> Configuration -> Web for the base Unsecure and Secure URLs.
Basically, before you do a transfer, if you’re going to be changing URLs, make sure you either update the Unsecure/Secure URLs in the backend BEFORE you move anything over, otherwise you’ll have to manually edit the rows in the table.
I wrote the instructions under the assumption that the store URL would remain the same, but you would be moving from one host to another or something similar.
