Tom Brown wrote: > ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 129: Duplicate entry '3-r��?�' for key 1 > > anyone got any clues to this one as so far i have drawn a blank you are inserting multiple duplicate values somewhere where its not allowed. without looking at your schema it would be hard to work out what the issue is. in other news, you dont need to dump + reload when you move from mysql-4 to mysql-5, just service mysqld stop; yum update mysql\*; /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade ; service mysqld start -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq