Thanks Charles for your patience and help. I removed winmysqladmin from startup and ALL problems went away! When winmysqladmin started up on the other user accounts it would somehow block connections to MySQL (since before I uninstalled, on normal [non-admin] user accounts, I could not connect to the db - attention Chris - and the stopped service could not be started from the console - even though it showed up as listening on the correct port no connection could be made). Now I can connect to the db on all user accounts.
I don't really know why this happened or how, but thanks for walking me through it. It was a new install on a new machine, and I appreciate all the help from everybody. cheers, Kirk --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
