This is a problem I had before with phpMyAdmin... Try closing your browser,
flush all cachefiles in the browser and log on to your database again. If
this helps, I can help you with a cure for this problem. If it doesn't
help, you probably have no permissions reading your database via phpMyAdmin.
I am relatively new to mySQL. I have just installed mySQL from source on
a local FreeBSD server. bin/mysql_install_db installed the mysql and test
databases. I can verify this on the server and with phpMyAdmin from my
Mac. Now when I create a new database I can verify that it exists like so:
mysql