Error after adding database.php file to project (happening on Windows and Ubuntu)

Hi guys!

I've been trying to understand this problem for a while now and I have
no clue on what is going on. Here go some steps to explain what is
happening:
1. I've downloaded (today - January 21, 2010) the versions 1.2.5 and
1.3.0 beta from CakePHP.org website;
2. Uncompressed them and put on the folder where apache reads them;
3. Accessing the version 1.3.0 (on my machine: http://localhost/cakephp-1.3.0/)
I get a beautiful screen (with colours, CSS, all the stuff you expect
to see...) where there is a sentence that says: "Your database
configuration file is NOT present. Rename config/database.php.default
to config/database.php"; And that's expected; To see a print of this
page I'm talking about please follow the link http://yfrog.com/jp130beforedatabasep;
4. Then I've renamed the file database.php.default to database.php;
5. Back to the browser I reloaded the page and noticed a new sentence:
"Your database configuration file is present. Cake is NOT able to
connect to the database." - That's what I was expecting - the same
beautiful page with colours and CSS but with a different message about
the database connection; To sse a print of the page please open
http://yfrog.com/08130afterdatabasep;

So... what's the problem?
The problem is that these same steps don't work for cakephp version
1.2.5, which is the stable version. Here is what happens:
1. On the 1.2.5 version, the screen has colours, CSS and the sentence
"Your database configuration file is NOT present. Rename config/
database.php.default to config/database.php", all as expected; Please
see a print of the page on http://yfrog.com/0n125beforedatabasep;
2. So I'll go and rename the database.php.default file to simply
database.php;
3. Back to the browser, I reload that page and that's when the problem
happens: There are no more colours, no CSS, no styles and there is
just about 1/4 of all text the this page is supposed to show; Please
see a print of the page on http://yfrog.com/jp125afterdatabasep;

I was using cakephp on Windows and I believed that it was a Windows
problem because a friend of mine tried the same steps on his machine
(Ubuntu) and didn't get this error.
So I installed Ubuntu and after having everything ready to start
studying cakephp, I got the same problem!

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Cheers
Lucas Loss

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