I've just installed 0.9b1 as a new installation.
Everything was going well, ie playing with the test data, until I added a password to the directory and now I get:
Error 1064 in query 'getitems': 'You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 10'
Error 1064 in query 'getitems': 'You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 10'
but it's not the permissions, as I've just taken them off and the same message appears.
MySQL client version: 4.1.22