XAMMP-Mysql Crashing

I have an issue that Mysql will not start on my local machine. I noticed a few days ago on a restart that I got an error saying that Mysqld had encountered a problem and had to close. I did not pay any attention to it because I was not working in it for a bit. I then tried to start it today and got the same error message saying mysqld.exe has encountered a problem and had to close. + Apache 2.2.11 + MySQL 5.1.30 (Community Server) + PHP 5.2.8 + PEAR (Support for PHP 4 has been discontinued) + PHP-Switch win32 1.0 (use "php-switch.bat" in the xampp main directory) + XAMPP Control Version 2.5 from www.nat32.com + XAMPP Security 1.0 + SQLite 2.8.15 + OpenSSL 0.9.8i + phpMyAdmin 3.1.1 + ADOdb 4.990 + Mercury Mail Transport System v4.52 + FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.29 + Webalizer 2.01-10 + Zend Optimizer 3.3.0 + eAccelerator 0.9.5.3 für PHP 5.2.8 (but not activated in the php.ini) Anyone have an idea to where I should start to look? Thanks Gary __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4234 (20090711) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com