[eluser]ray73864[/eluser]
ok, i have an idea where the error is coming from now, i changed the database.php file in /pharmacy/ to point to the 'capelcci' database and the website showed up perfectly, but when i changed it back to the 'pharmacy' database, it shows the encoding error.
This makes me think that there is something wrong in the database itself.
I can't work out where though, i ran the nice program 'Beyond Compare' against all the .sql files between the working version 'capelcci' which is running the 2009-06-11 version and the 'pharmacy' version which is running the 2009-06-15 version, but it isn't bringing anything up as being different.
Oh, i also re-downloaded the 2009-06-15 version and used the installer to install it into a fresh clean DB, but it has the same problem coming up with that content encoding error.