I managed to connect to the server using MySQL Administrator. If you use an account other than root it needs to be able to login locally.

I got the following error message on connection: Either the server service or the configuration file could not be found. Startup variables and service section are therefor disabled. I suspect the author of this procedure has MySQL Administrator running locally and used this procedure to get a copy running on another machine.

Startup variables and service section are only available locally. This procedure when complete would be a great work around for those systems that don't run MySQL administrator locally. I suspect some local config files need to be installed on the server to support the software. If I get it to work I will leave the bread crumbs.