Ok. Problem one resolved. I can now connect to the DB. Seems that when I created the user is defaulted to "any server" as a valid connection point. When attempting to set the old_password MySQL had a fit because it wasn't a "known" IP, or something. This was resolved by right clicking on the user and telling it "Add a host from which this user can connect", then telling it "localhost". Someone might want to make a note of that fun issue, for those that run into it the way I did.
Now I just need to figure out what fun, but surprisingly stupid, problem is keeping the server from talking to the minilogin, despite using the defaults for a localhost connection... Now I remember why I don't like installing complicated server/DB/client/whatever stuff on my system. lol
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