Just so you know I am pretty new to all this.
I recently installed MySQL 4 on my PC. My friend gave me mysqlgui.exe to help configure stuff. So I made several databases using it. Now I know these databases are there, because I am running IPB on one of them, and they show up under the data directory. However, when I run and look at mysql via the command prompt, and enter in the mysqlshow command, all it does is show the original test database. This same thing occurs when I look at my databases in mysqladmin. All it shows is the original test database. What is going on?