I restarted from scratch:
ls -lR /home
drwxr-xr-x 3 hyperic hyperic 4096 Aug 23 04:30 hyperic
/tmp/_hq_was_tuned does not exist
Result: Exactly the same error "CREATE TABLE ..."
to me it lookes like the setup scripts contains a bug, which tries to create a table with wrong parameters. Any ideas?