Mini Panels creation resaults in "white screen of death"

Running Drupal 5.10 with a content type called related_artifact the content type is part of various content types we are using on our site.
When creating regular panel there are no know issues when creating mini panels the configuration part is fine, I choose a one clumn layout (its a block eventually) and once I finished configuring the block I get the what I saw people referring to as the "white screen of death".

In order to duck the issue I had to move the sub dir of panels_mini from the sites/all/modules dir and unless I move it from the dir completely (i moved it one level up from modules dir) it keeps coming up and crashed the site.

The mini panel encorperated a view of Related content by type and by group
in this example of the mini panel the filter created a block of all related content of a content type called related artifacts with groups filter so for group nid 1 content related to group and type will display in block and so forth for group nid 2 and 3 ...

The mini panel was configured with the following parameters (from mini export tab):

$mini = new stdClass();
$mini->pid = 'new';
$mini->name = 'related_clientside_artifacts_minipanel';
$mini->category = NULL;
$mini->title = 'Related Clientside Artifacts';
$mini->contexts = array();
$mini->requiredcontexts = array();
$mini->relationships = array();
$display = new panels_display();
$display->did = 'new';
$display->layout = 'onecol';
$display->content = array();
$display->panels = array();
$pane = new stdClass();
$pane->pid = 'new-1';
$pane->panel = 'middle';
$pane->type = 'views2';
$pane->subtype = 'view_related_by_by_type_by_group_pane';
$pane->access = array();
$pane->configuration = array (
'override_title' => 1,
'override_title_text' => '',
'css_id' => '',
'css_class' => '',
'title' => 'Related Content By Type By Group',
'name' => 'view_related_by_by_type_by_group_pane',
'arguments' =>
array (
0 => 'related_art',
1 => '2',
),
);
$pane->shown = '1';
$display->content['new-1'] = $pane;
$display->panels['middle'][0] = 'new-1';
$mini->display = $display;