WampServer

Help, I have been trying to get it to work for several days now without much success.

* I have installed WAMP5 on my PC (using windows XP) using all the default
parameters.
* I set the Firewall to allow Port 80 and Port 3306.
* I checked that port 80 is not used by any other application.
* I started Wampserver and checked that all services are running.
* I opened phpMyAdmin on my browser and got the following massage:


Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.10.1

Probably reason of this is that you did not create configuration file. You might want to use setup script to create one.ErrorMySQL said: #2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0
Open new phpMyAdmin window



* I searched the web and figured out that I should create a
config.inc.php file
in
C:\wamp\phpmyadmin
I did that following information I found on the web but it didn’t work.

* After additional web searching I have decided to change the name of the
config.sample.inc.php in (C:\wamp\phpmyadmin ) to
config.inc.php
started phpMyAdmin again and got the following message:

Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.10.1
Language English (iso-8859-1)
Error
The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).


* Searching further I thought that in order to get it to work I need to enter a password
at the following line

$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ''; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */

in the config.inc.php file.

I used the password ‘oren’

* Started phpMyAdmin again and got the follwing:

Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.10.1
Language English (iso-8859-1)


Log in
Username: root
Password:


* …Yes, I thought to myself and typed ‘oren’ in the password box and got the
following message:

Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.10.1
Error
#2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0
Language English (iso-8859-1)


Log in
Username: root
Password:



* I tried this, that and the other but have not managed to find a solution.


Can anyone help PLEASE……??????