If you want to know the version number of your MySQL server, you can use the "mysqladmin" program in a command window as shown in the following tutorial:
>cd mysqlbin
>mysqladmin -u root version
mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.24, for Win32 on ia32
Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB ...
Server version 5.0.24-community
Protocol version 10
Connection localhost via TCP/IP
TCP port 3306
Uptime: 25 min 9 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 2 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 12 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 6 Queries per second avg: 0.001
The output in the above example tells you that the version number is 5.0.24.