Install fails on due to default value setting for properties table

I haven't had this problem on other installations of render, but on this particular environment (IIS6, Win2003, MySQL 5, PHP5) I was getting this error when trying to install the module: BLOB/TEXT column 'properties' can't have a default value query: render_install CREATE TABLE render

It was a simple as removing the default '' from the properties line of the render_install() function in render.install:
properties longtext NOT NULL,

Cheers,

Alex