Had to re-set up everything on my laptop recently, which included reinstalling XAMPP. While I was quite happy with the version of phpMyAdmin I had installed the first time around, the new bundled version has a few quirks that get to me. Specifically:
Auto-incremented fields ignore values I enter when inserting new rows (e.g. if I want to create a row with an id of '0' or '-1' for tracking purposes)
Having the extra drop-menu to tell it to accept the defined default value is an extra hassle, which only compounds if you forget to set it. The previous version I used did this perfectly: If I said the field could be null, it assumed I wanted it null unless I specified a value in the box. I don't put values into the box just so the program can ignore them because I didn't set the menu option.
I asked for help on the phpMyAdmin support forum, but all I got was one short reply justifying the very things that are annoying me. Can anyone here point me to the version that XAMPP was distributing back around April-May 2009?