Thanks, that helped (I think). I did everything you said, and when I did a NET START MySQL it said service started sucessfully.
I then did a Mysqld --console and this is what showed up in the cmd prompt:
C:\Program FIles\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>mysqld --console
060626 0:24:49 InnoDB: Operating system error number 32 in file operation.
InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at
InnoDB:
http://dev.mysql/com/doc/mysql/en/Operating_System_error_codes.html
InnoDB: File name .\ibdata1
InnoDB: File operationg call: 'open'
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
-- Also, the book I'm reading tells me to do a:
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\Mysql Test
I did that and got this message:
ERROR 1045 <28000>: Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' <using password: NO>
-- This message is new, before I would always get something else, this one sounds like I just need to set up a password, but again, I don't know how.
Thanks again for your help thus far.