Unable to login to apex as admin after apparent successful installation

Question

I am unable to login to apex as admin after an apparent successful installation.
I have an existing Oracle database 11.2.0.1.0 with Oracle Text running on Windows 7 Professional with hundreds of gigabytes of free disk space available. I did everything as an operating system user with administrator privileges. I downloaded the latest version of apex 4.0.2 for all languages, unzipped the downloaded zip file, extracting all files to an apex directory. I changed the working directory to apex and started sql*plus, connected sys as sysdba, ran apexins.sql installation, apex_epg_config.sql and apexconf.sql configuration, apexchpwd.sql to change the admin password, and apxldimg.sql to copy the images, and exec dbms_xdb.sethttpport(8080), unlocked accounts, and granted connect privileges.
The installation log did not show any errors and included:
"Thank you for installing Oracle Application Express.
Oracle Application Express is installed in the APEX_040000 schema.
The structure of the link to the Application Express administration services is as follows:
http://host:port/pls/apex/apex_admin (Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql)
http://host:port/apex/apex_admin (Oracle XML DB HTTP listener with the embedded PL/SQL gateway)
The structure of the link to the Application Express development interface is as follows:
http://host:port/pls/apex (Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql)
http://host:port/apex (Oracle XML DB HTTP listener with the embedded PL/SQL gateway)
JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES: 1000"
When I use either browser, Firefox 3.6.12 or Internet Explorer 8.0, and go to http://localhost:8080/apex/apex_admin I get a screen that says:
"Enter Application Express internal administration credentials"
and has boxes for a username and password. When I enter admin and the admin_password that I selected, then click on login nothing happens. I don't get logged in. I don't get an error message. It does not show any signs of anything running. It just sits there. I also don't get any messages from Windows or Norton 360 indicating that a pop-up window was blocked or any such thing. I checked that the services are running and also tried shutting down the computer and re-starting (cold boot), but was still unable to login.
I am a retired developer, not a DBA, so if there is anything else that I should do or check or provide, then please let me know. I have provided a copy and paste of everything that I could think of below. Oddly I don't see an admin user.
SQL> select * from v$version
  2  /
BANNER                                                                         
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production   
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production                                         
CORE     11.2.0.1.0     Production                                                     
TNS for 64-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production                        
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production                                         
SQL> select status from dba_registry where comp_id = 'APEX'
  2  /
STATUS                                                                         
VALID                                                                          
SQL> select username, account_status
  2  from   dba_users
  3  where  username = 'ANONYMOUS'
  4  or     username like 'APEX%'
  5  or     upper (username) = 'ADMIN'
  6  order  by username
  7  /
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS                                  
ANONYMOUS                      EXPIRED                                         
APEX_030200                    EXPIRED                                         
APEX_040000                    OPEN                                            
APEX_PUBLIC_USER               OPEN                                            
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttpport from dual
  2  /
GETHTTPPORT                                                                    
       8080                                                                    
SQL> select owa_util.get_version from dual
  2  /
GET_VERSION                                                                    
10.1.2.0.8                                                                     
SQL> show parameter memory_target
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE                         
memory_target                        big integer 1536M                         
SQL>

Answer 1

Are you sure you did give right path to script ? Yes.
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If you extract files to folder c:\temp, you have after that folder c:\temp\apex and bunch of sub folders.
For script to update images, you give path to folder where you did extract apex install files.
In above case that is then c:\temp .
>I created a directory c:\apex on my laptop. I downloaded the zip file to that directory. When I extracted the files to folder c:\apex, the result was c:\apex\apex with a bunch of sub folders and files. When I ran the script, I gave the path c:\apex as indicated in my copy and paste. So, I did everything the same as in the quote above, except that I used apex instead of temp.
Try extract Apex install zip to c:\temp and give c:\temp as path for scriptAre you suggesting that I redo the entire installation using c:\temp instead of c:\apex? What difference would that make? Would I need to do some sort of uninstall first?