Yes, this is normal I'm afraid. Sorry.
Installing from the HEAD will give you these problems and I would only advice you to work with this if you know exactly what you're doing.
I believe Don is planning to release a beta-version of dotLRN with the i18n work in July. You may want to wait for that. (You're first problem seems to be a missing SQL 'select_day_items' in you XQL file. In the second there is a <br> between <span>.)
