Just a heads up. When the site was giving character encoding errors it was always kicking out an array that included this part in plain text:
Code:
[MasterServer] => Array
(
[servername] => flyerdbhost
[port] => 3306
[username] => ****
[password] => ****
[usepconnect] => 0
)
Note I replaced username and password with ****, but it was clearly available for a number of minutes.