Jake, I  tried to do  instance setup on my machine using your description. Workbench brings a nicely designed popup “has encountered a bug, please report”,  during “Management and OS” step. So I did,  reported it here http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=60167

 

From: maria-discuss-bounces+wlad=montyprogram.com@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:maria-discuss-bounces+wlad=montyprogram.com@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jake Drew
Sent: Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2011 22:39
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Subject: [Maria-discuss] Installing MariaDB using MySQL Workbench on Windows