I created a new test forum, and did not get any errors on the same instance. I cleared the test database, and imported from production, and it worked fine. I can only assume this had something to do with the migrations. I have promoted the test to production, and am having no problems with character formatting in insert. Not sure there is a root cause, if the developers want any of the config files, I have them from both the working, and non-working instances.
