So, I've been ramming my head into a couple bugs all day, only to find that it's a known issue with certain versions of MySQL. It looks like there are fix actions, but it appears that they aren't things I can do. Would it be possible to implement these changes?
Elshadriel pointed out that this was something for me to do in my web.config and now everything is Okie dokie. Thanks for the help, sorry for what is ultimately a pointless thread.