Hello i dont know if it helps, but i had a similar problem with the locale stuff for my german page weinundglas.com there i wasnt able to see prices with fractional part like 1,67 DM was changed to 2,00 DM . I think the problem was that Locale de_DE LC_CTYPE de_DE should be Locale de_DE these LC_CTYPE seems to be wrong but i am not absolutely shure but after removing it my catalog worked.