Good idea! <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Glad you got it working.
I'll also add another thought with regard to my above post.
In 6.5 there are "clean error messages". Meaning if MySQL is hosed, a clean error is presented to the user - and the MySQL errors are surpressed. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />