Thanks,
that worked great and I am now able to work on my sample tables. That was exactly what I wanted. I am just a little confused about MySQL server 5.1. I installed and had no problem pointing sqlyog to my tables and importing tables to my new server database, but I thought I could run queries using this software also(mySQl server 5.1) or is this just a program to create and maintain servers. Sorry to sound so dumb