I noticed that MySGLclient version is 4.0.24 while the server version is 5.0.27. There was a warning that this may cause a problems. Can the client version be brought up to at least the same version? My desktop runs version 5.0.67 for both server & client.
Also I was NOT able to exit phpMyAdmin, it kept asking for username and password (which I kept giving) and I just close the web page.
