Why not help her solve the problem here? If so then everyone else will have the opportunity to see the solution and learn something...

Do you have the GUI MySQL Administrator? If not download (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/administrator/1.0.html) it.

Log in to the Administrator. On the left side choose startup variables. Then...

Are you using a scripting language to send the query? Like php or asp? If so you will need to post the code you are using to submit the query.

You can escape problematic characters with \ so to have a % inserted into the database it would have to look like \% in the query. You can read more about it here...

Post your origional php code for the query.

You can get phpMyAdmin here: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

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Hmm looks like your permissions are wrong. You will need to use chmod to give the webserver access to the files in your script. Chmod 755 will probably be good, if that doesn't work go 777. If you...

Hopefully the host that charges more is providing a much better server and really high bandwidth...... As Gary noted mysql is open source and free to use.

My suggestion is to rent a dedicated...

So... you realize you are trying to use 2 databases??

for command == "init" you have: mysql_select_db("kevinsmi_game")

for command == "update" you have ...