Ok, so when mysql updated a while back, it broke. It was simply not starting. So I tried fixing it, but hadn't been successful.
I finally gave up, copied all the directories & files under /var/lib/mysql out to a safe location, apt-get purge mysql, then apt-get install mysql.
So the server is running, but I can not, for the life of me, seem to get the old databases back in, and in a useable form.
I did get my gallery3 database in by just copying the gallery3 dir from my mysql/backup location in. But my actually gallery3 installation wouldn't talk to it. :/
Possibly there are permission issues, but I'm really clueless about sql.
Any help would be appreciated.