by Joshua Bragg.
There is nothing in the error about "Server has gone away" It is weird. There is no stack trace or anything. The only thing I left out is the referrer page and my IP address.
Ack, I forgot to mention that I already tried a backup and restore with the question bank excluded (and by extension all the quizzes) and it worked just fine.
I've had max_allowed_packet problems before. I have a huge course. It's already set at 100M. As I remember it, I also got a message about that in the past when that happened.