Text Field Default Value

Hi:

I'm new to MetaL and wish to ask you guys something that has been
puzzling me over the last two days.

I'm using the lastest stable MySQL 5 release (comunity edition) +
Apache (with PHP -also the latest-). I've read the documentation quite
deeply but when trying to create the MetaNews sample database...
install.php warns about not being able to give a text column a default
value. Such thing it explicitly banned in the MySQL docs... so I'm
afraid MySQL 5 it is not compatible with MetaL...
Could this be true?

I'm quite interested in using MetaStorage for my next personal
project(s) so I'll be glad to hear from you ASAP.

Regards.