It still did not update the table.
I thought I had read somewhere that if the table defined the field types, then that would reset the datatype correctly once it was inserted.
The field types are:
Field Type
sl_id mediumint(8)
sl_store varchar(255)
sl_address varchar(255)
sl_address2 varchar(255)
sl_city varchar(255)
sl_state varchar(255)
sl_zip varchar(255)
sl_country varchar(255)
sl_latitude varchar(255)
sl_longitude varchar(255)
sl_tags mediumtext
sl_description text
sl_email varchar(255)
sl_url varchar(255)
sl_hours varchar(255)
sl_phone varchar(255)
sl_image varchar(255)
sl_private varchar(1)
sl_neat_title varchar(255)
sl_linked_postid int(11)
sl_pages_url varchar(255)
sl_pages_on varchar(1)
sl_lastupdated timestamp
sl_fax varchar(255)
sl_option_value longtext
Looking at this for the first time, I just noticed that the sl_id field is an autoincrement, which means that it is going to fail as soon as I try to insert something into that field. I was trying to use the blog number as a way of keeping the blogs and the maps in sync with the blogs.