Color Scheme Generation Error

Upon clicking "generate schemes and enable" on the configuration page for any theme, I get the following error:

An error has occured while processing the color schemes.
Please continue to the error page

followed by:

An error occurred. /batch?id=5&op=do { "status": true, "percentage": 0, "message": "Processed 0 out of 1.\x3cbr/\x3eNow generating \x3cem\x3e\x3c/em\x3e" }
Warning: Out of memory; check if mysqld or some other process uses all available memory; if not, you may have to use 'ulimit' to allow mysqld to use more memory or you can add more swap space query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, variables, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (1, 'php', '%message in %file on line %line.', 'a:4:{s:6:\"%error\";s:12:\"user warning\";s:8:\"%message\";s:2307155:\"Out of memory; check if mysqld or some other process uses all available memory; if not, you may have to use 'ulimit' to allow mysqld to use more memory or you can add more swap space\nquery: UPDATE sessions SET uid = 1, cache = 0, hostname = '209.91.55.148', session = 'messages|a:1:{s:5:\\"error\\";a:8725:{i:0;s:257:\\"user warning: Table 'db818_my_metamenus.color_schemes' doesn't exist\\nquery: SELECT in /nfs/c01/h03/mnt/818/domains/metamenus.com/html/includes/database.mysqli.inc on line 128

When clicking thru to the error page as instructed, I get this description of the error:

An error occurred while processing color_batch_generate_schemes with arguments :color_batch_generate_schemes

user warning: Table 'mytablename.color_schemes' doesn't exist query: SELECT * FROM color_schemes WHERE id = 'enable_color_build' in my_drupal_path/color.database.inc on line 111.

(I have redacted the actual database name and path above.) This is followed by many pages of similar warnings repeating over and over.

FWIW, my hosting provider (Media Temple) runs a grid server configuration, so I don't have access to changing the memory settings for mysqld.