I just checked out an older phpMyAdmin CVS version (2002-6-21 20:00) that contained v1.15 of tbl_properties_links.php3. I encounter the same problems with this version. For all linux users, I attached two screenshots that will show you the difference between the ie6 and the Opera interpretation on my machine.
jup, ie is breaking the qbe translation badly, that is one reason why i opt to call it 'query editor' i allready asked marc about that, but he said it would be hell to try to get all translators to adopt it. well for the german version (only the none-utf) i changed that once, and i saw some translators use shorter names for this as well (presumably for this reason?) maybe they will do so by themselves, when they see it ;-)