Found the fix! What happened to me is I had used Winzip to unzip and untar the files on a Win2000 machine, then copied those files to the server. However, I found GNU tar, installed it, deleted my old mysql directory, and used GNU tar to untar the file in /usr/local. After that mysql_install_db worked fine. I didn't have to change permissions or anything.
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