"Starting at" price not the lowest price

[RixStix]

You mean that experimental thing that says "use at own risk"?

Yes DrByte. You beat me to confessing that the DBcharset converter was found to have inserted invisible characters (possibly randomly different & invisible) that were originally blank in the price_prefix and weight_prefix of the products_attributes table. If I knew those were the only invisible gremlins resulting from the use of the DBconverter, I would probably make the edits and keep the UTF8 version. Since I can't do that, I'll step back and just not use the converter.

After using the charset converter, I had looked through the DB for out of place characters and seeing none had thought all was fine.

Thankfully, Ajeh saved my bacon & figured it out while still in the sandbox. It would have been a bugger to correct if discovered weeks or months after going live.
I learned something to put in my "do not do or look for invisible gremins" memory.
I forgot how long it takes to restore the database and website files with a 1Mb connection.

Ajeh also found/fixed an unrelated problem with the 'keep_alive' timer that should not have existed. The website and DB backups were made immediately prior to installing keep_alive. Restoring the backup files did not remove all traces of keep_alive for some reason.