if you use the templates for my.cnf/my.ini (my-small, my-medium aso) that ship with mysql there's a basic configuration for InnoDB that works, but the lines are commented out …
Thank you both! As it turns out, I was running v.3 not 4 as I thought, and hadn't run the mysql-max.exe. I removed it and installed v4, made the modifications to the my.ini manually, removed the service, and ran the mysql-max.exe. Seems to be fine! Thanks again, you guys saved my posterior.