Gotcha Bail... Ok, I cleared the Mysql server error log, I dropped all the tables, I reran the server and this is the logged error:
Aborted connection 93 to db: 'uwc3' user: 'gmd' host: `localhost.localdomain' (Got an error reading communication packets)
I tried a few times to make sure that one large table causes that error, it does, the other 2 tables being created in the same routine are created successfully.
I also tested creating this particular large table with the mysql client, and a perl script and it worked fine which leads me to believe it is something with the amxx dbi module.
-Mug