RE: Starting Mysql service.. Problem
Try 
making the directory writable. Don't know why the permissions have been changed, 
but... 
 
# 
chmod u+w /var/run/mysqld
 
 
 dr-xr-xr-x   2 mysql 
root 4096 2006-07-04 07:30 . 
    ^  this is not writable for the 
mysql user. 
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