I second Todd's suggestion.
There is no need to run Cygwin in order to have the MySQL servers or
clients or any of its tools operating under Win32 (95, 98, 2000, ME, 2003,
XP, etc). I only ever use Cygwin when I need to run a remote Linux desktop
and as a teaching tool. Everything else I do
Todd,
I don't use Windows XP as a production machine, but I do run MySQL on my
personal machine running Windows XP, I run the Windows version of MySQL. Is
there any reason that you are using Cygwin to run MySQL when you can run the
MySQL windows binaries without any problems? The only thing I