gaining admin access to mysql

[alon s]

Hello,

Here is my problem and what i did until now:

a hosting company with a mysql server but root user password is lost.

what i did is i stopped the mysql service,
i ran the following commands:

mysqld-nt --skip-grant-tables

mysqladmin -u root flush-privileges password "test"

mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown

so far so good. it recognized the new password and shutdown the server.

then i wanted to create a control user for phpmyadmin.

so here is what i did:

mysql -u root –p

GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'steve'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'blabla';

GRANT SELECT (
Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
) ON mysql.user TO 'steve'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'steve'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'steve'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'steve'@'localhost';

everything went ok.
i restarted the server (windows 2003)
and then.. poof... mysql service ran automatically as always but forgot everything i did so far and i couldnt log in the with new password i creating from command line or phpmyadmin.

what do i do?