Matt Vona - 2006-12-22

This is most likely a real NEWBY question. 

I installed the scripts and have the system running successfully using XAMPP. 

When I log in as root, I get the following

12-21-2006 16:47:26|103|Unable to connect to database.|MyServer|/opt/lampp/htdocs/lib.inc.php|2885|Check database configuration parameters.

I am fairly certain this is because, although I have started MySQL, and installed the databases, I haven't configured the instance of the server?  Any clues on how to do this under XAMPP?