18 Feb 2008
MySQL is still working on the problems regarding the incompatibilities. In the bug reports there are some advices which will be released in the next release I guess. If you can’t wait, here are the solutions:
The not working preference pane has an update which you can download from here.
The issue of not starting up properly has to do with the user rights on the data directory. You can change them to the proper user by the command:
Hopefully the next release will address all the issues. If ou want to read the bugreport yourself you can do that here: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28854



11:32 am
Thanks for the link to the updated preference pane. Downloaded and it works fine now on 10.5.2 at least. You may like to check your HTML for the link though, as it is a bit messed up.
11:42 am
Thanks for pointing out the error, it’s corrected and should work properly now.
3:21 am
Hey, thanks for posting this little tidbit. I really appreciate it because I was really weirded out by the Leopard update breaking mysql.
11:11 am
Another little tidbit that may help hunting down such directory permission issues is dirmodes, http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/1402 . Just my 2 cents.