Thanks for the inquisition, jobeard! Yes. I'm running XP Home... but I've modified home to handle professional standards and have complete updates with Microsoft. PhpMyAdmin 2.11.4 has a bug which should be fixed in version 2.11.5. The fix is simple:jobeard said:First though is "Did you verify the system requirements for each"? Which XP {home/pro} are you running and are you current with the updates?
Open phpmyadmin\config.inc.php
Find:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
Replace with:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
Find:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';
Replace with:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';