Help A Newb Set Up MySQL With Dreamweaver

I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and I'm trying to follow the PHP tutorial but I can't set up a connection to my MySQL server because it's on my Linux partition on the same computer that Dreamweaver is on. Is there any way to do the tutorial without making a connection? What it's asking me to do is this:

"1. Open the Bindings panel, if it isn’t already open, by doing one of the following.

Select Window > Bindings.

Click the Application panel group’s expander arrow and then select the Bindings panel.

2. Add the FIRST_NAME field to the table, by doing one of the following:

Place the insertion point in the table cell below the First Name label; then in the Bindings panel, select FIRST_NAME and click Insert.

Drag FIRST_NAME from the Bindings panel to the table cell below the First Name label.

3. Repeat step 2 to add LAST_NAME, EMAIL, and COMMENTS (not COMMENT_ID) to the table.
Your table should look like the following. You may have to widen your Document window to see all of it."

are you using dreamweaver on a windows or a mac?

windows xp professional

Obviously, trying to connect to MySQL in linux on the same machine is never going to work; are you aware that there is a version of MySQL for Windows?

Yea i know... im wondering if there's a way to make the PHP site in the tuturiol without having to connect. And yea i know that there's a MySQL for windows. I tried that once but windows hates me