Apache 2.0.52 + PHP 4.3.9 + mySQL 4.1.7 -- OLD mysql library

hello everyone! I have a problem, and it goes like this: I installed Apache 2 on my Windows dev box (because A1 sucks on Windows) and PHP 4.3.9 (because that's what I have on my hosting box) and mySQL 4.1.7 cause it's the latest everything went well, I even ran a phpinfo() to see if everything was 5/5 I then decided it would be cool to have phpMyAdmin to make data transfers a lot easier... after installing those 3 pieces of software, I really wasn't prepared for the anguish of getting pMA to work :) it repeatedly reports MySQL said: #1251 - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client I have compared phpinfo() output on my hosting box and on my windows dev box and I found this teeny weeny difference: dev box: Client API version 3.23.49 hosting box: Client API version 4.0.22 I have read the latest 'solutions' from this newsgroup but I still can't seem to get it working. please help me, I'm becoming VERY desperate I have replaced c:\php\dlls\libmySQL.dll with C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin\libmySQL.dll, no change noticed I have then attempted to copy the same libmySQL.dll file to the extensions folder and load it -- no success... till I found out I had to modify extension_dir to "C:\php\extensions"... then I got a 'Invalid library (maybe not a PHP library) 'libmysql.dll'' error from Apache... only thing that strikes me odd is that I can't find php_mysql.dll or php_mysqli.dll anywhere in the installation... please assist me. thank you, Luka aka AlliX -- * AlliXSenoS * mailto:allixsenos@gmail.com