Thanks mc12345678 and Thanks lat9!!! That was an excellent description in your blog lat9. I simply changed my config files to utf8 and now everything works! I can edit my product descriptions again. Thanks so much! I will translate my database eventually to be all utf8. But, FYI this mismatch (latin1 in config vs utf8 in database) was the cause of ckeditor showing blank descriptions and ezpage windows.