Thanks to all who have replied. I've since learned quite a bit. The fundamental problem I was having related to MySQL's sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION". I learned from a bug report from 2006 that strict mode caused problems. So removing STRICT_TRANS_TABLES from sql_mode enabled export/import and allowed creation of a sandbox.
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