Yeah, you were right. I went back to the website and started here:

thanks! It hit me as soon as I saw what you wrote...

EASY STEPs
 

1. check to see if you installed it
do which mysql, which mysqld and see where they are located

2. check to see if mysql is actually running. You can't connect to mysql if it is not running

ps aux | grep mysqld

3. if it is running THEN check to see if it is in your path....
do: echo $PATH
this will tell you what your path is, then you check to see if where mysqld is installed is in your exisiting path.

good luck!

You can also try it with out the &. That is what I had to do.
sudo ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql

The only problem that I have with that is I have to close the terminal window and open another one. However that isnt a big deal to me.

Complete mysql
 

Just installed this. It puts a control panel in System prefs with which you can start/stop mysql and reset the mysql database root password.

http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...d=17951&db=mac

mysql startup
 

At the end of the above command, add an ampersand (&) ... this will perform the command "in the background" and return you to the command line.

Jack