As far as I can determine it is not the path now, but the connectivity with the mySQL. (The errstr appears not to output the path from the config file)

I installed mySQL out of the box without any modifications, but I have executed a number of DOS line entries relative to users/password, etc

I have tried various changes to:
@db_connect= ("DBI:mysql:test:name:localhost","ODBC","root");
@db_connect= ("DBI:mysql:test:name:mrburns","root","root");

I have execute mysql on the dos command line

Uptime: 1348 Threads: 1 Questions: 19 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 5 Flush tables
: 1 Open tables: 0 Queries per second avg: 0.014 Memory in use: 8272K Max mem
ory used: 8304K
+----+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+----+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 12 | ODBC | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist |
+----+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+


C:\mysql\bin>mysqlshow
+-----------+
| Databases |
+-----------+
| gat_db1 |
| mysql |
| test |
| test2 |
+-----------+

Have made a screen shot of the mysqladmin interface
http://www.gatman.com/mysql

Any thoughts now - really bugged on this one and gotta get it to work