wont write DB tables

Sorry if im breaking the threads but –

Im doing a clean install on SuSe 9.0, have required mysql+php – everything going fine,even got past the bad link [setup-config.php] – it gets to the end and fails, wont write the DB tables. Many of these….

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax near ‘-inst_categories ( cat_ID bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, cat_name varch’ at line 1]
CREATE TABLE wp_wp-inst_categories ( cat_ID bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, cat_name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”, category_nicename varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, category_description longtext NOT NULL, category_parent int(4) NOT NULL default ‘0’, PRIMARY KEY (cat_ID), KEY category_nicename (category_nicename) )

Thanx in advance brianv