Got the installer working. Fixed a few bugs including a nasty-to-debug issue where the lang_id was being hardcoded during installation, resulting in strings being inserted with the wrong lang_id causing an infinfinite loop with fetch() throwing a "no strings" error and using template (which calls fetch()) to complain
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Converting all tables on new installations to UTF-8; this may break MySQL 4.0 compatibility; several minor cosmetic fixes; set Powered button under Links to "on" by default