After a couple of hours of searching with Google and no answers forthcoming, I have come to ask the great Ars mind for help!Here's the plot: I have mySQL on my machine and I want to be able to ...

The mysql odbc libs may be reading that to get some other settings. Try removing that section or renaming the file, so there are no settings to get from that file.

Ch ODBC 3.5 allows C scripts to connect to the MySQL database in a supported industry standard. The ODBC C code can now run across platform without compilation and link, according to MacTech magazine.