[eluser]Basketcasesoftware[/eluser]
[quote author="kilishan" date="1303725150"]@Basketcasesoftware - Awesome news![/quote]
Had the same problem initially on my local host just now. My databases both at home and on my host are created with phpMyAdmin - common enough. When I created the basic db on my home machine and did a simple import of the db and files from my host there was a connection failure. I changed my privileges from '%' to 'localhost' and then recreated the db with the collation and MySQL connection collation as utf8_general_ci. re-imported the data - BINGO!
Very strange indeed.
Quick question. How you change the DB's mode? I'm stuck in development and I don't find anything in the CP to change it. Also where do the Auth functions live. They aren't under libraries that I can see.