When you use xampp, there should be a phpmyadmin included. I'm not sure how to administer a xampp, until today I had the impression xampp was only usable for development environment, I've never seen live forums running on it...
The wrong values might come from this unusual productive environment. I can't help much with webservers running on a linux machine.
You or your admin will have to sort this out by yourselves. If you can't get phpmyadmin running from xampp control panel, try to download it from here, extract it somewhere and login with your database credentials:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php
07-10-2011, 10:56 AM
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