thanks very much for your reply ZibingsCoder,
I had him place a script with phpinfo in the same directory as the admin script. It comes up completely blank, just like admin index. If I go to the login script(also in the admin dir), it works fine(logs the user in then forwards them to the blank admin index), and if I try the script front end, it also works fine.
I don't know how to help him because I can't see his php settings. I thought maybe someone would know why this was happening.
I have phpinfo disabled on my server, but it gives a friendly notice telling you why it's disabled. When I try to run phpinfo on his server, I get a page with not a single character in the source.
thanks,
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