I am stuck! innoDB

[lmsook]

Hi,
Here is my struggle.
I need to have transaction in MySQL, and I've heard that I need to use innoDB, but there is none in phpMyAdmin I can select or change the table type into innoDB.
In the Operations of phpMyAdmin, I know there is a drop down list I can change table type, but I only see MyISAM, Heap, MEMORY, MERGE, MRG_MYISAM.
No innoDB!!
As I run sql "SHOW INNODB STATUS", the result is

#1235 - Cannot call SHOW INNODB STATUS because skip-innodb is defined

As I researched, somebody said about my.cnf, but the file(my.cnf) in my computer, the type is SpeedDial, which I don't know how to open it to edit!!
Oh, I am stuck!
That's maybe when I installed MySQL(I used XAMPP), and I am using MySQL 4.1.14, did I miss something?
Can somebody help me out this?

[deepsurfer]

As I researched, somebody said about my.cnf, but the file(my.cnf) in my computer, the type is SpeedDial, which I don't know how to open it to edit!!

One method is:
- open notepad manuel, then in notepad click on "File" --> Open
- locate \xampp\mysql\bin
- change listing to see all files and then you see "my" to open in notepad.

you can do this with "write" to.

PS: after second read of my text...huuuuuuhh...

many words for one usage...
Open your favorite editor and open the "my" (my.cnf) by manuel files open funktion.

[taustin]

You can also hold down the Shift key, and right-click on the file, and you'll see a "Open with..." entry in the context menu. This will bring up a small windows where you can choose Notepad.