Installation problems – MAMP, MySql and WP

Hello

I have previously installed MAMP and mysql on my machine to set up a local environment for a wordPress course i am doing. However after losing everything and having to re-install I am getting this message whenever I try to start the servers in MAMP.

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) when trying to connect

When I do manage to get to phpadmin page – it lets me set up the database and then after I have chosen a user password deletes the user and then sort of kicks me out with an error message – sorry no trainers son kind of approach!! Doesn’t let me get back to change anything!

Error
MySQL said: Documentation

#1045 – Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.

I have to delete MAMP each time ( i think that this might be the cause – i don’t know ) but I can’t set up the database and connect to wordpress.

I really don’t know what it is going on – if anyone could help I would be very grateful.
Nick