Thread:Project:Support desk/New installed MediaWiki looks "a little weird" - no images at all only text and links/reply

This is a sign there is something broken about how CSS is being loaded (and the skins directory). Make sure load.php (and skins directory) is properly web accessible. Did you install from the official web site, or did you get MediaWiki from some third party (like a linux package)? Sometimes non-official versions of MediaWiki are really screwed up. Additionally you say PHP: 3.01, but we don't support that version of php (however, i assume that's just a typo, as you would have had a different error if you actually had that version of php)

Last of all, setting $wgStylePath or $wgLoadScript incorrectly can cause this, but most people don't even know these settings exist, so its unlikely you modified them in an incorrect manner.