Table 'xxxxl_xx138x.blog' doesn't exist

The table prefix was formatted as
Update...
It would of been helpful if the instructions mentioned the . after the prefix...
Okay so now I get a nice blank white homepage through vbadvanced. Could it be because I don't have a blog or is it something else?
I'm running vbavanced at the root of my site rather that in the forum dir if that's any help