[ale] Auto increment in MySQL

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

Can anyone tell me how to reset an autoincrement on a table in MySQL.
The docs tell me that it is set to max(id) on startup.  If I delete
everything from the table and then restart the server it is as if
the max(id) no longer reads 0.  It still reads the old value but there
is nothing in the table.