I appreciate the reply. Dropping the client was not a big deal and I'm hoping he doesn't call again, but I'm sure he will. I understood your posting very well, which brings me back to "Why would he want to point his godaddy parked page to my hosting numerical ip address, just to host the domain?...and would that work? He wants to:
1. keep registration at godaddy.
2. keep mail at godaddy.
3. host with me
I had already set him up after he changed his dns servers to mine and was just about to edit the zone file to point his mail back to godaddy but wasn't sure the ip forward from godaddy would work from his end. For the future, is this a normal practice or is he trying to do something scammy? (for the client end I mean). I do appreciate any response you can give as I am not yet professional and don't have too much experience with this type of hosting. Thanks!