MySQL Gone Away Error

[motowebmaster]

I moved one of my smaller communities, that is still using PhotoPost Pro v5.62, from a server running PHP4/MySQL4 to a new server running PHP5/MySQL5.

Once every 24 Hours, I receive two emails within seconds of each other. There has never been a vbulletin database error, these come from PhotoPost only. Here is one example:
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An error was encountered during execution of the query:

REPLACE INTO pp_iponline (userid,ipaddr,date,what,item) VALUES ('<username>','<IP Address>','1198934822','','500')

The query returned with an errorcode of:

MySQL server has gone away

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To turn off these emails, set $debug=0 in your config-inc.php file.
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It's a dedicated server, and I've already applied the MYSQL40 setting in my.cnf, thinking that it would resolve this problem but it persists.

Any ideas?

[Chuck S]

That tells me your mysql server is down most likely restarting. If this continues to be an issue you might want to contact your host to find out if there are any issues with mysql on the server.

[motowebmaster]

I checked the mysql log thinking that was the case, but it doesn't show a corresponding start time.

[Chuck S]

well that error is absolute mysql gone away means it has done just that and thats the report mysql is giving.