Elysian Shadows

I installed mySQL a while ago, and would like to reinstall it so I can start from scratch again, I've tried reinstalling mySQL from synaptic, but it saves the configuration files, any ideas on how to completely get rid of it?

what linux distro are you running, if you use the package manager from command line you should be able to completely remover it.

sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql

then you can re-install it.