I am trying to load a file into an MySQL(v5.1.38) innodb table using PHP's mysqli::query and a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE query. The query returns a 'Malformed packet' error code 2027. Any ideas what is wrong?

Here is the target table:

CREATE TABLE  `zbroom`.`lee_datareceive` (
  `a` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
  `b` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
  `c` varchar(45) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Here is the query:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/to/file.txt'
    INTO TABLE lee_datareceive
    FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t';

Here is the file data. Values are tab separated:

t1  t2  t3
a   b   c
d   e   f
g   h   i