If by the 'front end' you mean CPG - one additional change to try...
You changed the tables to UTF-8... but sometimes we have seen that MySQL doesn't correctly open the connection (varies by host, MySQL defaults, and maybe other reasons...)
In include/...
You changed the tables to UTF-8... but sometimes we have seen that MySQL doesn't correctly open the connection (varies by host, MySQL defaults, and maybe other reasons...)
In include/...