Installing Drupal

Hi, I have a problem with my install. I am at pair networks and they always host the database seperate from your domain. I got all of the .conf setup correctly and now I got an error on line 12 of database.mysql.

I opened up this file and saw some more config changes so I set it up with my db info.

now i get this error.
Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/www/users/psilo22/change/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I've been trying out the flexinode module with 4.4rc. On a clean installation it works very well, but on my upgraded site I get the following error message when I first preview a new story created using a flexinode content type:

user error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 query: SELECT comment FROM node WHERE nid= in d:\www\cvs\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 97.

I have installed PHP with Badblue, mySQL and apache.
Now when I try to open the downloaded drupal file, it would say "No application is associated with the specified file for this operation "
Can anyone tell me what is the problem?
Thank you

"Warning: mysql_connect(): Host '66.235.193.183' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /home/changefo/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Host '66.235.193.183' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server"

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I am usign a third party to host my website so I do not have access to the Apache conf files. It does seem I can create .htaccess files, so I'm okay there (if hopefully there is a fix for this I can put in the .htaccess)

Hey,

Im using redhat, apache 1.3.29, drupal 4.3.1 on the following sites-
nettrip.org
nettrip.org/alienation
revolutionmedianetwork.org
which are all on the same server, set-up nearly identically..

however, on revolutionmedianetwork.org, theres an intermittent problem where the page loads with no visible html (though the source reveals it to be the fameset/redirector page).

PLEASE help out, any help on this subject would be deeply appreciated! it makes drupal unusuable and is making me crazy.. ;)

I've followed the installation steps (except I added the database through phpMyAdmin). My Drupal installation is in a subdirectory (as in www.mydomain.com/team).

When I go to that URL to start up Drupal, I'm shown the conf.php file as text, followed by:

Database problem: DB Error: not found

Here are my relevant conf.php lines:
$db_url = "mysql://joeadmin:pwd@localhost/team";
$base_url = "http://www.mydomain.com";
$db_prefix = "";