Issues starting MySQL service. (9 replies)

Hello all. First let me say that I am new to MySQL, but I am figuring a bit out pretty quick. In my environment, I am using Apache2.2 on WinXP SP3 x32. Have the most recent PhP installed, trying to set up MySQL to use with PhpBB. Odd thing is, I originally installed and had EVERYTHING working perfectly. I created a new user from MySQL>, created a db, set it up to work, and had my PhpBB online. Well, for some reason it stopped working, and now I am where I am. I cannot get the windows service to start.

I uninstalled MYSQL, deleted everything (including my db), user profile information regarding MySQL, as well as what registry entries I could fine. Re downloaded MySQL 5.5, seems to install fine. I can run the server configuration wizard thing, it writes my.ini, but then freezes when it tries to start the service. I can see it adds the service, but it does not start it. In services.msc, there is no description on the service, which I find odd. When I manually try to start the service, I get an error:
"Could not start the MySQL service on Local Computer.
Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly."

I also have tried cd'ing to the ./bin, and type:
"mysql -u root -p"
Returns:
Enter password:
I type in my password, which I set in the config wizard, and it gives me this:
"ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)"

I have no idea what to do about this, or how to fix it. It's mindboggling because I had it working just yesterday. Not sure what was changed on the PC to make it stop working, so I can't start there and troubleshoot. I have tried checking logs, but I'm not sure where the logs are. If it's, .\data\HomeServer.err (which HomeServer) is the computer name), I open that with notepad and I find no real error messages. Actually, I will post it:

101223  9:22:05 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
101223  9:22:05  InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
101223  9:22:05  InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: The first specified data file .\ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
101223  9:22:05  InnoDB: Setting file .\ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
101223  9:22:05  InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
101223  9:22:05  InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
InnoDB: 127 rollback segment(s) active.
InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
101223  9:22:07  InnoDB: 1.1.4 started; log sequence number 0
101223  9:22:08 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
101223  9:22:08 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.8'  socket: ''  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)

That's about all the information I can think to give, if anything else is needed to help me figure this out, I will post it asap.
Thanks so much to anyone attempting to help me.