Thanks for the response Everett
I guess it would have been good to add that I wasn’t actually using Bulgarian. I had been up all night trying to upload a site to a hosting company I don’t normally use, but it was the client’s preference so what are you going to do
It ended up being my worst "going live" experience, never had so much trouble uploading to a server before. There server was slow to close file connections after they were uploaded and as a result I kept getting the error message: 530 Sorry, the maximum number of clients ( 8 ) for this user are already connected. I still had trouble after I went down to a maximum of only 2 simultaneous transfers. I ended up baby sitting the upload process and pausing it whenever the server got jammed up. There help desk thought it was my fault that the server wasn’t closing out connections and suggested I use FireFTP (I was using Filezilla) Didn’t make any difference, but after what you said I checked and their default transfer type was Binary, I had Filezilla set to auto. I ended up uploading the lang folder again and used the ascii mode. The configuration panel works fine now.
Sorry for the long story, but it did make me feel better to grumble about it.
Cheers!
Jules