launching mysqladmin

[idr]

I installed xampp 2.5 on XP- i can access mysql via cmd and it works fine after altering config.inc.php. but cannot launch mysqladmin from http://localhost
what is the correct path to launch admin? do i have to change a file? Attempt to launch from xampp panel "driver not found" I have to stop attempts via task mgr. Any advice? Thanks!

[sckoh]

mysql\bin\my.cnf (console)

If you install to D:\xampp\mysql,

C:\>D:
D:\

D:\>cd D:\xampp\mysql\bin

D:\xampp\mysql\bin>winmysqladmin

D:\xampp\mysql\bin>mysqld

D:\xampp\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot -pYOURPASSWORD mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 7
Server version: 5.0.51a Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql>

[idr]

Thanks!
But my my problem is not getting to mysql via cmd and launching mysql.
It is launching mysqladmin. I get a "can't find driver 3.5 error on launch of panel and it keeps attempting to execute until I stop it in task manager. I where is .dll supposed to be? Same thing happens if I try to open Admin from localhost or from xampp control. Is driver libmysql.dll? or what?
thanks,
id

[sckoh]

Is there any error message?
If you guess that the error come from libmysql.dll, you need to replace it with bugfixed libmysql.dll
http://free69.hosting.paran.com/data/downloads/libmysql.dll.