OK, I got frustrated and desperate so I started trying things that I had tried before just so I could feel like I was at least trying to do something to fix this, and I ended up changing all the 127.0.0.1 IP entries in the batch file to "localhost" which I had done before and it didn't work... But for some reason this time it worked!
. Now I have to work with my new problem... error 1017, but info about that is already posted in another thread so I'm moving to that thread.
Just in case anyone is wondering, general consensus is that the error 1017 is a result from using DB9.sql instead of the default database or Dwarde's database (sorry if I spelled that name wrong).
Kyouchou