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I found this problem last year in this thread:
http://community.mybboard.net/thread-39112-page-1.html

MySQL version 4.0 or above, PostgreSQL, or SQLite


Problem persists with version 4.0 of Mysql where the db_mysql.php have these lines:

		if($success && $this->db_encoding)
		{
			$this->query("SET NAMES '{$this->db_encoding}'");
			if($write_success && count($this->connections) > 1)
			{
				$this->write_query("SET NAMES '{$this->db_encoding}'");
			}
		}

	return " CHARACTER SET {$this->db_encoding} COLLATE {$collation}";

Neither is 4.0 compatible. So install will not work unless those are commented out. This needs to be addressed asap as a bug from Oct shoudn't still be lingering around. Nothing more frustrating them attempting to install and you get that blank page over and over again. People will just leave mybb and never return and tell others how it refused to install. Not good.

Thanks.

This was already reported and fixed for 1.4.5 iirc.