mysqldump problems

I am a relative newcomer to mysql and am moving an application from interbase to mysql.  It works fine but I just cannot get mysqldump to work.  I am trying to extract the schema into an sql file that I can then use to recreate the database when I am installing my application.

I have tried using mysqldump from the command line and also from within MySQL workbench 5.2.  Whatever I try I get the error: mysqldump: Got error: 1146: Table xxxxx  doesn't exist when using LOCK TABLES.  This happens even when I create a brand new database with a single table with a single column in it.  

There are loads of suggestions when I google this but nothing works for me.

Here is the error from the Workbench log:

09:29:00 Dumping test (emp)

Running: mysqldump.exe --defaults-extra-file="c:\users\peter\appdata\local\temp\tmpa7ohir.cnf"  --no-create-info=FALSE --order-by-primary=FALSE --force=FALSE --no-data=FALSE --tz-utc=TRUE --flush-privileges=FALSE --compress=FALSE --replace=FALSE --host=localhost --insert-ignore=FALSE --extended-insert=TRUE --user=root --quote-names=TRUE --hex-blob=FALSE --complete-insert=FALSE --add-locks=TRUE --port=3311 --disable-keys=TRUE --delayed-insert=FALSE --create-options=TRUE --delete-master-logs=FALSE --comments=TRUE --default-character-set=utf8 --max_allowed_packet=1G --flush-logs=FALSE --dump-date=TRUE --lock-tables=TRUE --allow-keywords=FALSE --events=FALSE "test" "emp"

mysqldump: Got error: 1146: Table 'test.emp' doesn't exist when doing LOCK TABLES


Operation failed with exitcode 2

09:29:01 Export of D:\Users\peter\Documents\dumps\Dump20111019-2 has finished with 1 errors

Can anyone help