I went into phpmyadmin and there was some warning about the root password not being set. So I set a password for it and when I go back in I have the following message;
Error
MySQL said:
#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.
phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.


Is there a work around - I know what I have set the password to