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Following the (Mac) steps in the Annex A PDF: I installed MAMP and it was working fine. On p. A9 I did steps 1-4 to assign a password to the root user via phpMyAdmin. (The one difference I noted was that at Step 2 there was a "Users" tab rather than one reading "Privileges".) I clicked to "Edit privileges" for root and typed/confirmed a password (as in Figure C on p A9) and clicked 'Go'. I got a confirmation of the change. I then changed the password value in the config.inc.php file in the phpMyAdmin directory, per Step 5, using Textwrangler to edit the one line where the password value is coded. I saved that file. I stopped both servers using MAMP. I started both servers. Clicking on the "Open start page" button fails with this: Error: Could not connect to MySQL server! And the additional detail: Error message: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect I have Quit everything; I have shut down my system and restarted. I'm still getting this error when I use MAMP. I can edit the config.inc.php to set it back to the default password value, but I'm still locked out because the change in steps 1-4 did work.