Fixed! In googling around to find a solution, I see I am not the only one to have this problem. Since it took a long time to find the right fix, thought I would post the link here for the instructions that worked for me:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database
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