I think you may have the same problem I did, which was moving between different versions of mySQL. I was using mySQL 4.1 on my staging machine and didn’t pay attention to the fact that my hosting provider was on mySQL 3.23. There are syntax and reserved word differences between the versions.
I resolved this issue by exporting the database a second time using the SQL export compatility mode and reimporting again on the new target host. If you are using phpMyAdmin, you can set the “SQL export compatibility:” dropdown box to “MYSQL323” or “MYSQL40”, etc.
Ich hoffe es hilft,
Jeff