Please help with mulitple VB3.8.4 PLE1 issues.
 

Though I'm waiting for my pre-ordered of VB4 suite* I've decided to download the latest version of VB and load it (locally) onto my laptop as a testing environment so I can familiarize myself with the features and functions.
The installation script ran flawless* however I am running into some issues:

1. My forum structure is http://mydomain.com/forum.
   If I were to log in with my username and password* it would redirect me to root instead of the forum directory.
   I tried playing around with the vbulletin options => Forum URL and Homepage URL settings in the admincp but nothing seems to work.
   How can I resolve this issues?
2. I was unable to view my own profile from within the forum* when I'd click either on the Usercp link or on my name* I'll get the follow browser error message in Firefox:
   Quote:
   Content Encoding Error
   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
   
   As for IE* I simply get page cannot be displayed
   So after reading this thread here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ncoding-Errort and turning off GZIP* what happens now is that I'm getting this...
   Quote:
   Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\www\domain.dev\forum\showthread.php on line 639
   Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\www\domain.dev\forum\showthread.php on line 1041
   Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\www\domain.dev\forum\showthread.php on line 1046
   Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\www\domain.dev\forum\showthread.php on line 1518
   Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\www\domain.dev\forum\showthread.php on line 1523
   
   while I'm navigating throughout the forum.
   I'm not sure as to why this is happening.
3. When trying to make edit a post and then attempting to save it via the save button* it appears that nothing happens.
   It just stays in the edit mode regardless of the what type of editing mode I'm in* WYSIWYG or standard.
   What's weird is that it would still save the edit but remain in the edit mode.
   However* if I were to select Go Advance* I can select the save changes button and it will save and exit of the edit mode.
   This is happening on both Firefiox and IE.

This is my server setup:

Quote:
HP HDX 18T (laptop)
OS: Windows 7
Server Type: WINNT
Web Server: Apache v2.2.14
PHP: 5.3.0
PHP Max Post Size: 8.00 MB
PHP Maximum Upload Size: 2.00 MB
PHP Memory Limit: 128.00 MB
MySQL Version: 5.1.40-community
MySQL Packet Size: 1.00 MB

Any help will greatly be appreciated.
Thank you!