i tried as you said and it gave me a failed msg. i looked in the err tab and it has the following in it:
030331 3:52:23 MySql: Shutdown Complete
030331 3:52:22 MySql: Normal shutdown
http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html
the InnoDB startup options listed in section 2 at
But to get good performance you should adjust for your hardware
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
section, for example,
or my.ini. If you want to use InnoDB tables, add to the [mysqld]
to the [mysqld] section of init parameters in your my.cnf
skip-innodb
If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line
Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set.
MySql: ready for connections
thought maybe this would help. thank you again for any assistance