Installing Drupal

OK I have searched for the answer to this and can't find it anywhere. Have a new Drupal installation using toboggan module.

After a user registers they go to: http://www.mydomain.com/drupal/toboggan/register?destination=

Settings Error: Multibyte string input conversion in PHP

I have installed Drupal 4.7 and everything is working correctly except:

1) an error I am getting on the page when I go to administer>settings.

It reads:

Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled.
Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring
documentation for more information.

2)Also, when I go under settings>string handling, it reads:

String handling method:

Invalid: the current configuration is incompatible with Drupal.

3)I also read this is the include>unicode.inc file:

* Perform checks about Unicode support in PHP, and set the right settings
if needed.

* Because Drupal needs to be able to handle text in various encodings, we do not support mbstring function overloading. HTTP input/output conversion must be disabled for similar reasons.

I am not familiar with PHP and this is my first installation of this kind. I
have tried to contact my host and get support, but they reply that there is
no problem with the mstring function and directed me to reinstall Drupal. I
am not sure if this is true. I do not have access to the php.ini file to personally
check if the setting is enabled or disabled. I really don't understand a whole
lot about it and do not know if I have made an error in installing Drupal or
if my hosting company just does not want to give me access to what I need to
correct this problem. My hosting company uses MySQL and phpMyAdmin. I do not
know if that is relevant or not.

I installed drupal 4.6.5 on a remote server(Linux/Apache, PHP 5.0.1 and MySQL). When I ran the site it displays this. No theme or even I can't access the admin area. What could be the possible cause ?

I'm use admin credentials for MySQL access, so I have granted permissions by default isn't it ?

I keep getting this error.

Message fopen(files/.1.banner.cache): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/name2/public_html/name1/modules/banner.module on line 1100.

It came out of nowhere because I never messed with the banner module. I was just updating that site and then this came up.

Does anyone know what I am to do?

How do I extract the drupal file that you download into my webserver.

I am using a hostingn control panel.

if someone would even like to install drupal for me on my web server, I would appreciate it and even throw in some money via pay pal.

I just want to get it working correctly.

My new posts no longer appear in the tracker ( recent posts ) ... All content is published as usual, and promoted to the frontpage. Any idea why it's not appearing the recent posts ?

Marcel
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