r3a1 — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:44:03 +0000

So I tracked down the web guru at the local office and here is the answer to the my question. It has to do with the hashing algorithm that mysql uses (which is somewhat new) and the conflict with the verision of php I was using. you can revert the hashing of the password to the old algorithm with this command ran in your mysql command prompt. That will fix the problem or atleast it did in my case.

SET PASSWORD FOR 'zoooz'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('mypass');