Anycase, WP is good software. It’s just this one design decission had my pulling my hair the past few days, reading errors logs (making sure error logs were actually repoting), hacking the code to figure out why it was erroring, re-importing my db (which is partially the reason why auto_increment key got lost) and so forth. That was coupled with some other hair pulling coding issues going one at work — something works, then later on it breaks (with no change on my end). Pretty annoying. ha

I plan to track down this issue in WP and submit a patch for it. There really is no reason to use the table_prefix as a namespace prefix in the db.