Uninstalling/Reinstalling MySQL

Databases
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I am having problems connecting to mysql. This is what is happening:

COMPUTER NAME:~ USERNAME$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe
Password:
110603 09:45:47 mysqld_safe Logging to ‘/usr/local/mysql/data/Bernice-COMPUTER NAME’.
110603 09:45:47 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
110603 09:47:27 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql/data/COMPUTERNAME.local.pid ended

COMPUTER NAME:~ USERNAME$ mysqladmin -u root staus
mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)’
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ exists!

I have no idea why it won’t connect unless I am typing the wrong password?
I am learning from BYO Database driven website: using PHP & MSQL

can you explain how to uninstall and reinstall MySQL?

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Uninstalling MySQL on Mac OS X Leopard
To uninstall MySQL and completely remove it (including all databases) from your Mac do the following:

Use mysqldump to backup your databases to text files!
Stop the database server
sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
edit /etc/hostconfig and remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-
rm -rf ~/Library/PreferencePanes/My*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
The last two lines are particularly important as otherwise, you can’t install an older version of MySQL even though you think that you’ve completely deleted the newer version!