After reading a bit from the rest of the postings on other this forum. I had solved the problem and want to repost it here as a summary of what get my MySQL Windows service going.
You have to create my.ini under your Windows directory, which should be C:\Windows for most Windows and C:\WinNT...
I encountered the same problem after installing the MySQL V4.0.20c. I installed it on my notebook running Windows XP with all the latest security patches and entered D:\MySQL as the installed directory.
I can run MySQL and successfully use it if I start it using the following command...
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