WAMP on VISTA, minor WP install issue?

Just a short note that may help someone else in the future:

I just gone done installing WP 2.6.2 on Vista, where I use WampServer 2.0 to manage Apache, MySQL & PHP for local development/testing. For whatever reason(s), after I clicked on “install WP” on the install page, the browser would just sit there waiting for a response, which I never got. Hence, I wasn’t informed of my unencrypted admin password, and had to go into phpMyAdmin to change the MD5’d version. Other than that, the installation went flawless.

I did get the following error in my php log, but contrary to what the log says, the table was fine, and everything was populated the way it was supposed to be during the installation, including the values reflected in the following error message:

[18-Oct-2008 23:27:24] WordPress database error Table ‘wordpress.wp_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES (‘cron’, ‘a:2:{i:1224386844;a:1:{s:17:\”wp_update_plugins\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:10:\”twicedaily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:43200;}}}s:7:\”version\”;i:2;}’, ‘yes’) made by add_option

I figure something in WAMP made php throw up on itself…

janco