Quoting Skip Taylor <avskip@gmail.com>:

> On Nov 30, 2007 12:14 PM, sander-martijn <lists@severeddreams.com > wrote:
>
>> Well if that sql works and in turn the database is accurate but the
>> array is empty (an assumption i'm making from the error) then it looks
... 

>> fresh copy of drupal 5.3, replacing /sites and /files with your folders
>> and uploading the whole thing.  Since the site setup, themes, modules
>> and uploaded files should be in those two folders that should work fine
>> and shouldn't take more than about a half hr to hr (depending on ftp
>> speed).  If it still doesn't work then it's one of your modules or
>> something in the database.
>>
>
> I'll give that a try and see what happens. As to messing around with the
> code, I'm not a PHP or MySQL programmer so I doubt it would do much good.
> It's more a minor inconvenience as I rarely use the setting. I was going to
> submit this as an issue but can't figure out what category to put it in.
>

Maybe you're just running out of memory? To .htaccess add ``php_value
memory_limit 64M''.  You might also add ``php_value display_errors 1''
temporarily to see if it displays an error.