http://drupal.org/node/571350#comment-4212112
My new mac and I love this list of workarounds. Thanks folks.
on my mac I did:
cd /tmp
ln -s /usr/local/zend/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock (sometimes this link gets deleted and I have to recreate it -- I will try to protect it with unix permissions)
This lets you type mysql from the terminal and login to mysql that way.
Then I did: