Working to get OO.org Database configuration working with MySQL using ODBC gave me a little bit of a headache. I have decided to pass along the info I found and used.
First is a two part article at LinuxWorld ( Part 1 & Part 2 ) which helped a whole bunch in getting ODBC and MySQL setup. A HUGE help was the how-to by Mr. McCreesh referred to in both part1 and part 2; of which I have linked locally (pdf 1.5m) for everyones convenience. Finally I last little bit-o-trouble was given to me by MyODBC and I found the solution on a groups.google.com post.
All of this was to do OpenOffice.org work with databases on forms in a post I made earlier.