It’s been one of those days where stuff doesn’t work as advertised. The problem of the moment in fighting a recalcitrant MySQL on a Windows box (I know, don’t do that). The error is Plugin ‘InnoDB’ init function returned error. A simple problem to fix on Linux when the InnoDB configuration changes and you blow away the log files.
But under Windows that doesn’t solve the problem. Finally ran across this article which fixed things.