Vista - Installing mysql on Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Folks,

I am having trouble getting mysql 5.1 to start as a service on Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1. I am logged in as an Administrator. The instance config wizard fails at the point where it is attempting to start mysql as a Windows service. When I try to start bin/mysqld manually by using right-click and clicking on "Run as administrator" I get an error. Here are the details (I have installed mysql on XP, Linux and Mac and have had no problems). Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Some of the other forums indicate that you have to use ResourceHacker - is that indeed the only solution?)

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mysqld.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4a5bd403
Fault Module Name: mysqld.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bd403
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 002edc10
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: cf43
Additional Information 2: 407fd5eb364aef1ae63da34f0b5ecdab
Additional Information 3: 067d
Additional Information 4: a98b0c37ceb5d2f9441bdd5835dc1312