Ok I've finally gotten MySQL 3.23.37 installed and operating. Thanks to all that helped! The problem I'm now experiencing is when I try to interface with MySQL via PHP. MySQL seems to work fine by logging into MySQL directly and through a MySQL GUI Client. I get the following error... Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Lost connection to MySQL server during query... I'm assuming this is a MySQL issue since everything worked fine before the upgrade from MySQL 3.32.22 to MySQL 3.23.37. But for all I know it could be PHP I guess. I'm doing very simple query to see if it works and no success. Even code that worked before I upgraded doesn't work anymore. Here's the test query I made... (BTW, the below query works fine via MySQL/MySQL GUI Client) $szQuery = "SELECT * FROM People WHERE First_Name='adouglas'"; $dbconnection = mysql_connect("207.195.58.33","webuser","adamacc226"); mysql_select_db("venmar", $dbConnection) or die("could not connect to venmar for security authentication."); $saResults = mysql_query($szQuery, $dbConnection) or die ("2could not query venmar for security authentication."); $obResults = mysql_fetch_row($saResults) echo "$obResults[0], $obResults[1], $obResults[2], $obResults[3], $obResults[4], $obResults[5]"; The MySQL Database has it's own dedicated machine running on OpenBSD 2.9. The web server accessing the MySQL Database is on it's own machine with Apache 1.3.12 and OpenBSD 2.9. 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