[Fridgecritter]

Ok, Here's the deal. I am running Mysql 5xx and the newest Perl distro with the GUI PPM on mine, and it works just fine. The mySQL component you need is called something different in the new GUI based PPM. It's called DBIx-MySQLSequence. The other two components (the IO stringy and the other) are still called the same thing. Once you make sure those three are installed, you are done with perl and it works.

The password fix in the post WORKS. You CAN use MySQL 5xx because I am using it now with no problems. Run that query and you should have no problems. If that doesn't work, then the problem is something else, or you are not running the query correctly. Hope that helps.