incorrect bug report information

I just submited a bug report, and realized that some of the problem I reported is not there. I can not find my bug report, so maybe it's still pending?

I claimed that all the admin interfaces are gone, but that is actually not true. It is just first page when I enter the admin panel is paritally missing (all the left side), so I can not go to any other part of the admin interface. I noticed I can get into the admin panel by click on the admin link under one article, and then I can get into all other admin parts. But still, if I click on the admin link in the user login box, I get only a administration message and one line says "System Messages", then all the rest (left and below) are blank. The html source shows the last line is <h2>System Messages</h2>, and nothing after.

I experienced something similar before, but that was with other part of the admin panel, the module part, not the first page of admin.

I am using CVS version, gb2312 as charset, with mysql database support gb2312. I have changed all utf-8 into gb2312 in the code.

If anybody has any clue on how do debug this problem, I'd really appreciate your advice. I noticed a debuger has been mentioned a few times, but not sure if I can run it because my hosting company does not allow me to install anything that needs to be compiled or installed. I can just copy things into place and run it. There is no compiler and I don't have access to install into system directory.

Thank you for reading this.