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I believe my server uses older versions of php and MySQL but I am not sure (and I dont even know how to check on a shared server). I downloaded the files (as I believe you did, instead of changing them by hand, which i tried but made mistakes) and dropped them where the old ones where. Since I had made changes to that files already, by trying to implement other hacks, i was a bit worried things would not work, but fortunately they did. it was actually that simple so I dont know of any other thing to try.
BTW I dont know if this is important but I am using the previous release of xoops, I believe its .02 instead of .03
Hope you fix your issues...