Aran wrote:
I've found that by setting $wgDBmysql5 to false things seem to work ok, but is this really a good solution? I'd like everything to be running up to date, not in some backward compatibility mode... does anyone have any idea how to fix the problem properly?
It's not a backwards compatibility mode. It's just a different configuration. In fact, Wikimedia servers are working with mysql 4.0! :)