Hey everybody, I'm about to try getting those databases installed. It looks like it might be more trouble than I thought because they were created on MySQL 4.0.x (Debian testing) and now I'm running MySQL 4.1.x on RHEL4. I have a Debian testing box at home so I'm thinking it might be best to copy them to that box and then do a proper export. I figure that might increase the odds of getting a working system out of it in the end. A couple questions: 1. I have WordPress installed at home and it was installed on the crashed server too. Both databases are called "wordpress". Can I rename either of them before copying the data into /var/lib/mysql where the database tables live? 2. How does the "mysql" database fit into this? If I copy some database tables in /var/lib/mysql do I need to modify the mysql database to make the new database available? Thanks for all the help so far. -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 blog: http://technosavvy.org/