Advanced Guestbook installation error message

Hello,

I am attempting to install Advanced Guestbook, but I have come up against a stone wall.

I installed the tables to my Mysql database, successfully. However, the Advanced Guestbook setup page that gave me the success message had an incorrect entry for the Your MySQL host: field. This entry was the same as the Your database: and Your MySQL username: fields, which are identical (my hosts suggestion, which has worked successfully on numerous other databases).

I checked my database and there are 10 tables existing. The success page prompted me to go to the admin page. When I did I clicked on the link, I received the following error message:

MySQL Error : Connection Error
Error Number: 2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
Date : Fri, January 9, 2004 11:14:49
IP : 69.44.121.165
Browser : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)
Referer :
PHP Version : 4.3.1
OS : Linux
Server : Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510
Server Name : www.wanted-band.com

I saw this problem in another post in this forum, but it was not addressed. Please help.

Sincerely,
Jay