Going back to your original post about backing up the database. If you're still interested, I would recommend looking at Navicat. It runs on windows/mac/linux and connects to the mysql server so you can do all sorts of cool stuff....one of them being dump the database or tables.
<br><br><a href="http://www.navicat.com/">http://www.navicat.com/</a><br><br><br>Mike<br><br>