Serendipity MySQL woes....

A couple of nights ago, I started having problems modifying any previously saved blog entries. The Serendipity software would error out with the following error message:
    / Incorrect key file for table 'serendipity_entries'; try to repair it

After repeatedly repairing the serendipity_entries table ( "repair table serendipity_entries;" ) only to have the table get corrupted again as soon as I edited anything.
I ended up having to dump out the table contents and recreate it (using the following MySQL commands):
    [unix]$ mysqldump -u username --password=passwd --add-drop-table db_name serendipity_entries \
            > /var/tmp/serendipity_entries_table
    mysql> source /var/tmp/serendipity_entries_table

Then all was good - I could update my blog freely again.
Whew!

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Yet another tip for those Serendipity bloggers who get spammed mercilessly. You can truncate the serendipity_spamblocklog table to save room in your MySQL database via the command:
    mysql> truncate serendipity_spamblocklog ;

For more info, check out this Serendipity Forums thread.