Phil and rest of the Zommunity I followed the instructions on http://www.zope.org/Members/philh/mysql which has helped me successfully twice (out of two before) on Windows NT and Windows 2000. This installation was seemless like others, and the product doesn't look broken from the Control_Panel/Products view. The only thing I've been able to do (not too bad) is to add a Z MySQL Database Connection with the proper syntax there "database root <password>". That works fine. Whenever I try to use the connection in any way, it crashes Zope! "An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated. python.exe" ... and from the console Zope (in debug mode) looks to be still running, but from the management interface I can see that it's not (nothing happens!). William Crandall had a similar question with more details but with the same result as I. No answer to this one: http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/242bb7cc2b2c343d802568a b003585d4/f5a855d999e73c978025693600507b4e?OpenDocument I tried it on 2.2.2, failed tried to upgrade to 2.2.5 failed as well. MySQL: 3.22.34-shareware-debug (no anonymous user set up) Windows NT(4) Python 1.5.2 in Program Files but I have that other python.exe in the <zope dir>/bin ZMySQLDA 1.1.3 I used the MySQL.pyd you provided from your How-To I also used the libmySQL.dll you provided from your How-To What can be the reason for this? Is it strange Zope/ZMySQLDA behaviour or is it my MySQL? Thanks alot!, Peter