prashmohan

that was the very link that i referred to before. I have replaced DEFAULT CHARSET = latin1 with nothing and then imported the script into mysql. Still the problem exists.

i used to have the DB on mysql 4.1 on the previous server which had CHARSET=latin1, but the new server runs mysql 4.0.x which does not support CHARSET, so i removed the CHARSETs as per a link google gave me. is there no work around without using CHARSETs?

check again. the database values are OK

Yes I have followed all the procedures mentioned there. My blog is at https://mutt.in/~prash/blog <– as you can see doesnt load.

When I logged into mysql and did select * from wp_options the screen started filling with -‘s and +’s, it did not show me the contents. would that be the reason?