maybe this will save you an hour or so of your life to learn from my mistake. When installing MySql 5.0 on windows and you screw up the configuration and want to start over from scratch a couple things will help you out.
- Remove the MySql service before you uninstall. This can be easily done with the configuration manager and i recommend this because it seemed ( atleast on my system) that uninstaling the program didn’t always remove the service.
- Delete the MySql directory in program files after you uninstall. The configuration files are kept here, so if you don’t delete this before you reinstall, you have to battle with the same botched config files again.
