I am using joomla 1.5
I downloaded and installed the plugin and activated it in the plugins section.

I've tried to enter an item in an article like this -

[item]cobrascale gloves[/item]

When the page is shown, the top of the artical shows this error

string(31) "Unable to connect to SQL host: " Failed to update item: ()

the item itself is shown as [cobrascale gloves] and clicking on it redirects me to...the same page.

oh, and in fireboard 1.0.5 it doesn't do anything at all

What am I missing in the installation or set up?

I just read your reminder post

Here some more info

Link to the site - http://www.carpejugulum.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=37

System

PHP Built on: Linux leeds.eukhost.com 2.6.26.2-EUKAS #2 SMP Thu Aug 14 03:52:24 BST 2008 i686
Database Version: 5.0.51a-community
Database Collation: latin1_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.6
Web Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.6 Production/Stable [ Vusani ] 12-August-2008 22:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)

Directory Permissions

administrator/backups/ Writable
administrator/components/ Writable
administrator/language/ Writable
administrator/language/en-GB/ Writable
administrator/language/it-IT/ Writable
administrator/modules/ Writable
administrator/templates/ Writable
components/ Writable
images/ Writable
images/banners/ Writable
images/stories/ Writable
language/ Writable
language/en-GB/ just read your reminder post

Here some more info

Link to the site - http://www.carpejugulum.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=37

System

PHP Built on: Linux leeds.eukhost.com 2.6.26.2-EUKAS #2 SMP Thu Aug 14 03:52:24 BST 2008 i686
Database Version: 5.0.51a-community
Database Collation: latin1_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.6
Web Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.6 Production/Stable [ Vusani ] 12-August-2008 22:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)

Directory Permissions

administrator/backups/ Writable
administrator/components/ Writable
administrator/language/ Writable
administrator/language/en-GB/ Writable
administrator/language/it-IT/ Writable
administrator/modules/ Writable
administrator/templates/ Writable
components/ Writable
images/ Writable
images/banners/ Writable
images/stories/ Writable
language/ Writable
language/en-GB/ Writable
language/pdf_fonts/ Writable
media/ Writable
modules/ Writable
plugins/ Writable
plugins/content/ Writable
plugins/editors/ Writable
plugins/editors-xtd/ Writable
plugins/search/ Writable
plugins/system/ Writable
plugins/user/ Writable
plugins/xmlrpc/ Writable
tmp/ Writable
templates/ Writable
Cache Directory /home/carpejug/public_html/cache/ Writable
Cache Directory /home/carpejug/public_html/administrator/cache/ Writable

I hope this helps you to help me

when I view the above post i just made, it seems to have copied itself halfway through, yet when I edit the post, it's normal.

Perhaps that's a problem with fireboard