Hi Tsuji,
thanks for replying again. Sorry that I failed to give more information to the point you made.
I pay for the hosting. So, it isn't easy to get proper builds downloaded. I have to ask my hosting company for help there.
A few weeks ago they told me that they were running php 5.2.5. I asked them to copy the libmysql.dll from version 5.2.1, which they did. (The newest version of that DLL conflicts with phpMyIDE. I found that there was no problem using libmysql.dll from version 5.2.1 with the php 5.2.5.)
It's hard to verify the version of MySQL. They gave me a phpMyAdmin interface. However, it doesn't seem to express what the version of PHP is. After I login to phpMyAdmin, I see two columns, one for localhost and the other is phpMyAdmin. The server version given for localhost is 5.0.51-log. Meanwhile, underneath the phpMyAdmin column it says MySQL client version 4.1.15.
I suspect that the two version numbers given in phpMyAdmin are not accurate, and that the hosting company is correct in saying that I am running php 5.2.5.
Is this helpful? I sure appreciate your helping me.
thanks,