Dear friends, I have two issues in using MySQL in Win platform

1. I am using MySQL server 4.1.7 on Windows 2000 server, MyODBC 3.5.10 and Visual Basic as front end application If once I get the error "-2147467259 [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-4.1.7-nt]Malformed packet" error, it is not allowing me to do database activity until I restart the database server. It happened quite frequently for some time. What could be the problem?

2. After inserting a new record in a table having auto-increment field I will run the query as "SELECT id FROM <table1> WHERE id IS NULL" we will be getting the latest autoincremented field number right, but in the above mentioned server it is not returning any value. If anybody has solution for this. Please let me know Thanking you in advance yours Karthikeyan R