Installation – DB Syntax error – Missing tablenames

Hi,

I am trying to get my first WordPress installation up and running, but its proving to be way more frustrating that I had hoped.

I have created a DB, created a DB user and granted the user all access to the database.

When I try to run the install.php, it goes through the first step, but at the second step, I get a lot of DB syntax errors, like this:

“

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘( umeta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, user_id big]
CREATE TABLE ( umeta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) default NULL, meta_value longtext, PRIMARY KEY (umeta_id), KEY user_id (user_id), KEY meta_key (meta_key) )
“

Its clear that the SQL statements are missing the tablename. If I run the SQL statements manually and add a table name, the syntax is fine.

The table names seems to be set in wp-settings.php – but why arent they loaded?