Running apache on a shared host, all prior versions worked, but 1.2 refuses to render. Are there any debug tricks I can do, I've tried renaming the .htaccess dropping the zp-core and themes directories all to no avail.

http://www.mrtech.com/photos/index.php

What theme are you running? If it is not one of the distributed themes the first thing to do is see you still have this problem when using one of them.

The HTML for the page you reference is completely empty, it does not at all look like anything zenphoto emits.

default theme, tried changing it but it didn't work. deep linking into a specific image will work though:

http://www.mrtech.com/photos/flock-splash-screens/flock%20new%20black.png.html

how can I roll back to 1.1.7? can't find the download links.

It's here: http://www.zenphoto.org/files/

back up and running now with 1.1.7, I know that for 1.1.7 I had to manually create the zen_obj table due to the utf8 bug or something similar, would that have anything to do with it? Is there a php debug mode or script I can run to view settings or error, don't have shell access to this system. http://www.mrtech.com/photos/

i had to run the zp-core/setup.php before I could see anything.

ran setup, ran upgrade, but it still wouldn't work, I'll wait to test 2.0.1

of course that's 1.2.1, damned fever is getting to me.