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After spending several hours attempting to track down and fix all the errors in the various config files that XAMPP managed to totally stuff up (by inserting \ insead of / and leaving off drive letters), I still kept getting errors all over the place when trying to access web pages I copied there. As for phpMyAdmin, it absolutely refused to allow me to import any databases or run any SQL commands at all.

The next step was to uninstall the Apache and mySQL services from XAMPP and try an install of WAMP5 instead.

WAMP5 installed much easier than XAMPP did since it did not stuff up the config files. That saved me the time I had spent manually rebuilding the config files in XAMPP and got me to the same point with WAMP5 in tem minutes that it had taken over five hours to get to with XAMPP. Unfortunately the install was still corrupted in exactly the same way as the “repaired” XAMPP install was and still refused to allow me to run any SQL.

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