Error al crear Base de Datos en mySQL

[marcarballo]

intento generar esta consulta:

CREATE TABLE `flash_news` (
* `id` smallint( 5 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
* `author` varchar( 60 ) NOT NULL default '',
* `timestamp` int( 10 ) NOT NULL default '0',
* `title` varchar( 200 ) NOT NULL default '',
* `body` text NOT NULL ,
* PRIMARY KEY*( `id` )
) TYPE = MYISAM

y me da este error:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'id`smallint(5) NOT NULL auto_increment ,
* `author`varchar(60) NOT NULL defaul' at line 2

si m podeis ayudar