same error with mysql upgrade 4.1 to 5 on RH 4 (no replies)

hi,

I have gone through all the thread provided on how to upgrade 4.1 to 5 but no luck
I am using RH4
first i was getting libmysqlclient.so.14 dependency error which i got rid of by installing shared-compat

but after that i got the old version conflict error for which i ran these command

rpm -qa | grep -i '^mysql-'

rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}.%{arch}\n" mysql

Then remove one-by-one

rpm --nodeps -ev MySQL-first-package
rpm --nodeps -ev MySQL-second-package

rpm --nodeps -ev MySQL-last-package

Once you remove all packages you download all MySQL 5.4.* packages into a dir and run below command

rpm -ivh MySQL-*.rpm

all went OK but problem remains I can't run mysql
and after first /etc/init.d/mysql start server never stop or restart again
I am just stuck here I am not mysql guy please help me with in week i need to go live with application