I was frustrated to discover that my working MySQL 5 installation stopped working when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Here’s what I did to fix it:
  1. Uninstall the old copy
  2. Install the 64-bit version from the MySQL site

Install the two packages (a separate one for the StartupItem) and copy the prefs pane to /Library/PreferencePanes/.

Update

The MySQL prefs panel had an annoying dialog about having to reopen, etc. So I found this rebuilt version from the good folks at Swoon that works just fine.

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  4. Converting from MS Access to mySQL
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