Ok, I initially posted a follow-up on this pleading for the same type of information, however I think I found what I was looking for.
The use of the "last_insert_id()" function meets my needs. You can find the official MySql folks documentation at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-functions.html
The basic overview is that this function, called like: select last_insert_id();
and will return the sequence ID generated from the previous insert query into a table where an auto_increment column existed. I'm simplifying this a bit, but basically if you are doing simple inserts into a table, and want to know what the ID was that is generated from the insert, this works.
It met my need.
BTW - I'm running the lastest distro as of this post - 5.0.37 of the community version of the DB.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2007 11:59PM by Rick Siner.