[eluser]ray73864[/eluser]
both the working database and the non-working database are 'utf8_encoded_ci', i even did the options in the first result on that search, things like setting 'network.use-http-cache' to false, refresh and then set back to true.
clearing browser cache, etc...
Internet Explorer 8 also can't get to the page, but it doesn't provide very good reasons as to why it can't.
