Hi,
I have just downloaded the trial version (2.0) after a bit of reading on your site.
I had no problem setting the JVM back to 1.4 default and editing the mysql default root user login details as described in your installation pdf. However, one note I should make, if you talk about BIN directories to traditional mac users, it might pay to make a brief note that you are talking about the application directory (in mac speak, that is control click the application icon and select 'show package content'). It took me a few minutes of searching to realise which /bin directory you actually referred to. Normally you don't actually see the directory of the application package any other way (unless you use the command line all the time I guess).
Now to the real question, the mysql install I have here is 5.0.19 and is installed as a 'user install', means it lives in /usr/local/mysql .
I get the error of not being able to connect to the DB on startup of the AwareIM application. I can only assume there is a setting somewhere to correct this issue, and your default installer setup is configuring for a default system installed mysql? In this case, it would help to get a note in the installation instructions for users who install their own version of mysql, as the system included mysql version is usually fairly old.
It is fairly late in the evening here, and I may have overlooked something, but I look forward to getting this last setting sorted and getting to look at your software and it's capabilities.
Cheers
Chris