I just had the same experience with a copy of IIP I downloaded last night. There's also no link. My setup is a new (functioning) install of UBBT 6.1.1. The pals directory is a sub-directory of my ubbt directory which is a subdirectory of htdocs. Index.php is in the top level of htdocs. My Ubbt config.inc.php is outside my web root. Also, the cookie path has been set to "/".
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