Filemanager not working: not a proper XML

I second this one, I have no idea how else to set my user settings. But the weird part is my images actualy get uploaded, also directories get created, even though I get this error every time which makes filemanager useless.

We found some funny chars in the original files in the connectors/php/ dir.
Also, check for uppercase folder names (eg Image), as now they use strtolower() in the folder defs in io.php. if you remove strtolower(), it will probably work if you can't change your folders to lower case.

the weird chars found: 

in front of all "<?php" statements.

may be screwing some things up.

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? ... _id=257179

I have the same effect: ...."The server didn't reply with a proper XML file Check your configuration".....

All upper bugfixes didn't have any effect, the bug is still there and the filemanager doesn't work.

I have checked the "...editor/filemanager/browser/default/browser.html" with the Javascript-Console from Firefox, and there is reported the following error:

selectElement has no properties
/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/js/common.js
Line: 36

Could that be a reason for the problem? Hav anyone an idea how to fix it ?

Richard, could you please specify, what means "utf-8 no BOM format" ?