Ok, well I hope the issue isn't the installed version of mysql. I cannot get 5.0.82 to install on 2K8. It will fail at service startup during the final phase of install--despite the fact that the service starts fine. When you do a reconfig from the wizard, it starts the service fine, but then fails at applying the security settings. Arg!!!
EDIT: Managed to get 5.0.82 installed thanks to this website. It allowed me to start the server with a txt file that forced a root password thereby correcting the issue caused by the faulty windows installer. Now 5.0.82 is running fine on my server. Now to see if it makes a whit of difference for my emu install
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...rmissions.html
EDIT2: Well, went through all that and redid the db sourcing, etc..and the LS server still won't connect to MySQL database. It doesn't really log anything too useful:
g] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Logging System Init.
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Config System Init.
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] MySQL Database Init.
[Database] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Failed to connect to MySQL database.
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Encryption Initialize.
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Encryption Loaded Successfully.
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Server Manager Initialize.
[Network] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] ServerManager listening on port 5998
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Client Manager Initialize.
[Network] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] ClientManager listening on Titanium stream.
[Network] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] ClientManager listening on SoD stream.
[Debug] [08.27.12 - 14:12:18] Server Started.
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