IE tries to save .php pages on my WordPress?

Try running wp-admin/upgrade.php on your site.

I know, but go ahead.

Won’t that ruine all the changes I made?

It is a fresh install, not an upgrade……

“I know, but go ahead.”

lol! You mindreader your ??

It worked, any idea how and why?

Bug in the install.

It’s missing a setting in the options table (a record called html_type) which is keeping WordPress from passing the content-type. The devs may have fixed this in the most recent download, but don’t quote me.

Problem: WordPress 1.5dev is causing later versions of IE to issue a download link

Solution: add “html_type” as “text/html” to your “wp_options” table or run upgrade.php if you have the latest upgrade-schema.php (revision: 1.27).

Reason:
WordPress 1.5 now has a configurable Content-Type: default (I guess it’s for those doing XHTML strict which is supposed to be “application/xml” or something), but the install process doesn’t have the “html_type” setting that it is looking for. Running upgrade.php will access upgrade_schema.php which contains will add this config to your database.

Love the get_options(), get_settings() and blog_info() trifecta

Run /wp-admin/upgrade.php I know, it sounds odd, but just do it. That’s the fix for this problem.