I recently had a problem running the create tables script (both innoDB and regular MyISAM) on MySQL 4.1.1-alpha (standard).
The problem is that the "DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment" are not valid options when used in conjunction...you should remove the "DEFAULT '0'" when you specify that a column should be an auto_increment column. Example: --< OLD >-------------- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS aliases; CREATE TABLE aliases ( alias_idnr bigint(21) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment, alias varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', deliver_to varchar(250) NOT NULL default '', client_idnr bigint(21) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (alias_idnr), INDEX (alias), INDEX (client_idnr) ) TYPE=InnoDB; --< CORRECT >-------------- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS aliases; CREATE TABLE aliases ( alias_idnr bigint(21) NOT NULL auto_increment, alias varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', deliver_to varchar(250) NOT NULL default '', client_idnr bigint(21) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (alias_idnr), INDEX (alias), INDEX (client_idnr) ) TYPE=InnoDB; I've been wrong before, but that's what made it work for me.