diff -Naur phpMyAdmin.orig/libraries/common.lib.php phpMyAdmin/libraries/common.lib.php
--- phpMyAdmin.orig/libraries/common.lib.php	2006-08-21 13:45:16.000000000 +0200
+++ phpMyAdmin/libraries/common.lib.php	2006-09-20 20:04:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -1374,6 +1374,7 @@
         if (PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION < 50000) {
             return false;
         }
+        return false;
         if ( false === PMA_DBI_fetch_value('SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM information_schema.VIEWS WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = \'' . $db . '\' AND TABLE_NAME = \'' . $table . '\';')) {
             return false;
         } else {
diff -Naur phpMyAdmin.orig/libraries/database_interface.lib.php phpMyAdmin/libraries/database_interface.lib.php
--- phpMyAdmin.orig/libraries/database_interface.lib.php	2006-03-08 18:54:29.000000000 +0100
+++ phpMyAdmin/libraries/database_interface.lib.php	2006-09-20 20:10:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@
 function PMA_DBI_get_dblist($link = null)
 {
     $dbs_array = PMA_DBI_fetch_result('SHOW DATABASES;', $link);
+    foreach ($dbs_array as $key => $db) {
+        if ($db == "information_schema")
+          unset($dbs_array[$key]);
+    }
 
     // Before MySQL 4.0.2, SHOW DATABASES could send the
     // whole list, so check if we really have access:
@@ -245,7 +249,7 @@
 
     $tables = array();
 
-    if ( PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50002 ) {
+    if ( 0 && PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50002 ) {
         // get table information from information_schema
         if ( $table ) {
             if ( true === $tbl_is_group ) {
@@ -396,7 +400,7 @@
     // initialize to avoid errors when there are no databases
     $databases = array();
 
-    if ( PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50002 ) {
+    if ( 0 && PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50002 ) {
         // get table information from information_schema
         if ( $database ) {
             $sql_where_schema = 'WHERE `SCHEMA_NAME` LIKE \''
@@ -496,7 +500,7 @@
 {
     $columns = array();
 
-    if ( PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50002 ) {
+    if ( 0 && PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50002 ) {
         $sql_wheres = array();
         $array_keys = array();
 
diff -Naur phpMyAdmin.orig/libraries/mysql_charsets.lib.php phpMyAdmin/libraries/mysql_charsets.lib.php
--- phpMyAdmin.orig/libraries/mysql_charsets.lib.php	2006-01-17 18:02:30.000000000 +0100
+++ phpMyAdmin/libraries/mysql_charsets.lib.php	2006-09-20 20:06:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
             // information_schema database: We know it!
             return 'utf8_general_ci';
         }
-        if ( PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50006 ) {
+        if ( 0 && PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 50006 ) {
             // Since MySQL 5.0.6, we don't have to parse SHOW CREATE DATABASE anymore.
             return PMA_DBI_fetch_value('SELECT DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = \'' . PMA_sqlAddSlashes($db) . '\' LIMIT 1;');
         } elseif ( PMA_MYSQL_INT_VERSION >= 40101 ) {