Gilbert,
You wrote:
> 7) More problems, use 'locate' to delete all (I thought) mysql files;
don't
> think I really did delete all of them though.
...
> I was thinking of updating the 'locate' database, and then searching for
all
> files that have 'mysql' in them, again. Is this the best way to
Your binary distrubution downloaded from mysql.org installs in
/usr/local/mysql
If you remove everything from that directory, you can just install the
binary distribution again into that directory.
Don't forget to run the mysql_install_db script after installation so to
set up your initia