I only found a small reference to this on here so thought I would come right out and ask.

When accessing my own database I to am getting the error

#2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server during query

can anyone tell me what this means and how to solve it?

many thanks

Hi.

Anyone mind if I bump this? Frankly I'm beggining to think no one anywhere on the net (this includes the admins on geocities) knows anything about this and it gets ignored.

I've seen this question ignored on a few other boards to (none posted by me I add)

It's been a week now and it's actually cheesing me off.

Come on some one I'd settle for an educated geuss about now.

Well, this message looks perfectly clear to me.
A query was interrupted middle course. Canbe bad connectivity, server over loading, and almost anything else.

Do you have the logs of the db server ?
Is the db server on the same computer than the web server ?
What was the query being run ?

A too badly crafted query can bring a server on it's knees, especially if you have missed a joint, and it returns dozens of thousands of results.
Add an "order by" close, and almost any server would die on that...