New to DBI, MySQL, etc, so bear with me on this one. Going through the given examples with DBI, or anyother one I use for that matter, I keep getting this one single error:

DBI connect('database=test;host=xxx.xxx.x.x','username',...) failed: T
+imeout of authentication at C:/Perl/site/lib/DBD/mysqlPP.pm line 109 
+at database.pl line 7
Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at database.pl line 
+11.
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The example code I'm using is:

#!perl

use DBI;

$dsn = "dbi:mysqlPP:database=test;host=xxx.xxx.x.x";

$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, "my_username", "my_password");

$drh = DBI->install_driver("mysqlPP");

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bla");
$sth->execute;
$numRows = $sth->rows;
$numFields = $sth->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'};
$sth->finish;
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Any suggestions?

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