When I created my main Joomla! site, I installed Joomla! using Fantastico, as described in this post.
However, I set that site up in a temporary folder while my original site was still running on HTML. When I finished the Joomla! site, I backed up the site (using JoomlaPack, now changing names to Akeeba Backup), deleted
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