lane

open source, beta, CVS, free…
Chris, a commerical product might be the way to go if you are looking for support within 24 hours on a final released developed product (well, unless the company is large like MS, Adobe, Macromedia, etc and you could wait weeks to months…). Currently Moveable Type and pMachine are rated as the top commercial Weblog tools for features and support (Macworld July 2003).
That is the advantage/disadvantage of open source versus commercial.

Are you still having problems with this? Seems that the post went through looking at your site. Could it be that you used a relative link in the post and WordPress somehow thought it was trying to link in content?
Also, on your referer page, you have a fatal error that you might want to check:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rcfg() (previously declared in /STORE/binarybonsai_com/public_html/refer/refer.php:21) in /STORE/binarybonsai_com/public_html/refer/refer.php on line 16

Your site is looking good BTW!

Geronimo:
I have looked at e107. I think it’s an excellent portal/CMS system, but I find most CMS’ too rigid in structure (namely, block layout style). From a graphic designer’s perspective, I dislike most CMS systems. Even viewing e107’s site gives me a headache. Content is everywhere, your eye looses focus… articles, downloads, who’s online, polls, people chatting in shoutboxes, last comments from the forums… everything is “slapped” in front of you.
Most portal/CMS systems are overkill. That might be why the failure rate is so high with such systems. And, it also might be why Weblogs are so popular; they are more focused in providing information, you can drill down to the information that you want (look at a general CMS’ed site and try to make heads or tails of what is going on on that site within 15 seconds…)
Maybe it comes down to good design and UI, like when presenting information (especially on the Web where user attention is at a premium), you want the user to be able to find what they want fast. Otherwise, they are surfing to another location without a thought. Take this example, provide some content/copy that takes up the full width of a browser compared to copy that is maybe 250 pixels in width, a users eye will stray when the sentences are longer, whereas the eye is able to move faster over copy in shorter lengths.
So, if you want to provide a more robust community, yes, portals are the way to go (since you have more options and “plugins”), but if you want to focus on publishing (writing, photos, media, with some community features like comments), then a Weblog tool is the way to go. There are some exceptions, of course, like if you were to concentrate more on a corporate site, a Weblog tool might not be enough (depending on the flexiblity of the tool).

Install .71, import your tables from that SQL dump (because it uses the same table structure), then install .72 by uploading the files into the same directory. Then point your browser to YourDomain.com/wp-admin/upgrade-071-to-072.php
That modify your table structure to the .72 settings.

What browser and platform are you using?
To me, the admin section scales to whatever size my window is at… it’s using XHTML, thus CSS to define the admin section. Look in the “wp-admin” directory and modify wp-admin.css to your liking. Mostly DIV tags defining everything; looking at the code, seems that most tables are scaled to 100 to 90 percent…

Cookie information? Try deleting all the cookies from your domain (and wordpress). And/or, use a different browser for each installation just to make sure the second one is actually working.

Right now, they are working on passwording a post (it’s there in the Post/Edit section, but I don’t think it’s active just yet). Nothing has been mentioned for private catagories that could be accessed with a password, to my knowledge.

Eudaimic:
Are you running a lot of databases and/or have a lot of tables within the one database? I seem to recall working on a project that had to allot more space *in* MySQL. I don’t remember what it was since I’m just a “dumb” ?? designer/photographer, but I remember having to run myisamchk. Might be something to check as well.
More Reference:
https://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Full_table.html
https://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Memory_use.html

Do you have enough space on your web host? Error 28 Reference

Are you able to see the Post/Edit screen (/wp-admin/b2edit.php)? Or is the error happening when you click on “My Profile” in the popup window to edit your profile?

I’ve also played around with Blosxom, while very low-fi, it is a decent setup. The image plugins (specifically imagegallery) have the same functionality as Alex King’s photo hack, so WP has a lot more benefits than Blosxom. I’m pretty committed to using WP. I like the development and the future goals of the project. So, I’m just going to give feedback where I can.
I really think that Weblogging tools are setup as an excellent publishing facility; it is more focused in providing articles and media (photos, audio, etc). Whereas, most CMS’ out there overdo just about everything, and being harder to control the output. There are some good galleries out there, and they are for a single function, some providing extra features than others. But, I think that if a publishing system like WP has the right features (concerning media handling), it could replace a lot of the galleries out there.
What I would really like to see is Alex to introduce some of his photo script into the media handling of photos and other content into WP. I’ve followed his work for a while and have been impressed with his developments. Props to you, Alex. And I feel that the other developers are just as good. So, you have this excellent core that is being worked on and improved with some wonderful players backing it. This is why WP is so interesting to me.
I guess it would be nice to really comment now on how we could make WP that much better by combining core gallery features/handling in WP. That is, if the developers don’t mind this feedback. But it would be nice to hear from other user experiences using different tools and what they liked/disliked using such tools.

I’ve used 4images; it is a nice program, although I’ve had problems with the thumbnails it creates (this was testing area I tried with this script, it’s not an active area for the general public, but you can see how there are some problems with using ImageMagick). Gallery is okay, the main thing I have with this script is the customization and how it keeps large images on the server. As far as galleries go, I think that Coppermine was an excellent package, but there are some limitations with that as well.
My goal with this current project is to merge user stories with the photos, and most photo sets have 500+ files. Yet, it is to be a showcase for the photos that I do for others.
I’m thinking I can get by with WordPress by FTP’ing the photos into a directory and placing the images into a post. Then just create a catagory for each event which could be separated by date (adjusting the post time for each image post, thus it would give me a relationship to the event:photo catagory).
Maybe I am looking too much into this…

You have to create the database manually. Then use that db name in wp-config.php. So far, looking at the install script, there is only the creation of tables in an existing db.
HTH

Actually, you want one file called wp-config.php in the root directory of your WordPress installation. There is none in the beginning, so you are making a duplicate of wp-config.sample.php and renaming that duplicate to wp-config.php
On a Mac, this would look like:
wp-config.sample copy.php
rename wp-config.sample copy.php to wp-config.php (basically taking out “.sample copy”)
open the file, change the contents of your newly created wp-config.php file to your settings.
upload.
You will not touch wp-config-extra.php at all. And you are not copying or pasting any code from one file to the next, you’re making an actual duplicate of the file and renaming it.
HTH
Lane

Quick fix: Don’t use IE (especially since MS is not continuing development for it)