It's starting to really look like you can't run it in your current configuration.
IIRC the readme and/or the language file contain instructions on specifying the correct mysql binary/application for your computer. NOTE: If you change that to suit your local PC it will NOT match what's on your server.
Perhaps you should just do your backup with phpMyAdmin, and then take that backup and import it to the new database also using phpMyAdmin.
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