>>When not converting UTF8 to Latin-1 and only using htmlentities($text) I 
>>get only a few errors. That's fine :)
> 
> I'm not really clear what you are doing -- converting html entities
> and character set encodings are two different things.

All I do with text coming from the database is htmlentities($text)
http://dk.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Let me know if you would like to see my spider.php script.

Best regards,
Jacob