Aggh!! Blank Admin CP and Weird Characters...

[SignalRunnerM3]

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I am hosted on Godaddy with shared Linux hosting... I've attached the config.php. This is the only file I have modified and haven't touched anything else. Cookie paths on install are set to blank.

I ran the

UPDATE setting SET value = '0' WHERE varname = 'gzipoutput';

UPDATE datastore SET data=REPLACE(data,'s:10:"gzipoutput";i:1;','s:10:" gzipoutput";i:0;') WHERE title='options';

query string in myPHPadmin because after the install I was getting a content encoding error... running this string would clear the problem.

So my question is... how do I get rid of those weird characters on the top left of each page and how can I log into the Admin CP without the page going blank?

Really need this fixed asap and will appreciate any help!

edit by Lynne: config file removed since all personal data was included.


little update:

The problems only show up in firefox for some reason... I.E. is working fine.