Got the installer working. Fixed a few bugs including a nasty-to-debug issue where the lang_id was being hardcoded during installation, resulting in strings being inserted with the wrong lang_id causing an infinfinite loop with fetch() throwing a "no strings" error and using template (which calls fetch()) to complain
.mceLinkList, .mceAnchorList, #targetlist {width:280px;}
.mceActionPanel {margin-top:7px;}
.panel_wrapper div.current {height:320px;}
#classlist, #title, #href {width:280px;}
#popupurl, #popupname {width:200px;}
#popupwidth, #popupheight, #popupleft, #popuptop {width:30px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;}
#id, #style, #classes, #target, #dir, #hreflang, #lang, #charset, #type, #rel, #rev, #tabindex, #accesskey {width:200px;}
#events_panel input {width:200px;}