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I started to upgrade civicrm to the newest version and had so many problems I decided to uninstall everything and start over.  I now cannot get it installed no matter what I do.  I went into the database and deleted the civicrm tables and all.  Nothing works.  I am on php 4 linux server and I uploaded all the files to the com_installer (because it would time out on me) and am trying to install through the directory.  This is the message I am getting when I try to install. 

DB function failed with error number 2006
MySQL server has gone away SQL=INSERT INTO jos_components VALUES( '', 'CiviCRM', 'option=com_civicrm', 0, 0, 'option=com_civicrm', 'CiviCRM', 'com_civicrm', 0, 'js/ThemeOffice/component.png', 0, '' )
SQL =
INSERT INTO jos_components
 VALUES( '', 'CiviCRM', 'option=com_civicrm', 0, 0, 'option=com_civicrm', 'CiviCRM', 'com_civicrm', 0, 'js/ThemeOffice/component.png', 0, ''

What am I doing wrong?  Thanks
Cindy