Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> Can't find file: './mysql/(database_name).frm' for numerous databases.

That's the file the actual table data is stored in. Unless you're on a
shared machine and are trying to run a private copy of MySQL, you
probably don't mean to put store table data in a subdirectory of the
current directory ("./mysql"). Typically this stuff goes in
/var/lib/mysql If that's what you want, you can either override the
defaults by setting up a custom my.cnf or get a build of MySQL that has
the defaults set sanely for your needs.

Perhaps the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS binaries you can download from mysql.com
will work on your newer system. If so, you can be sure they'll be
configured sanely.