Don't name a MySQL table 'user' without a prefix! (At least if you want to access that table in Dreamweaver CS3). As far as I know, it's not a reserved word and doesn't cause any problems when you work from the command line, navicat, whatever, just Dreamweaver. It's probably bad practice to name your user table 'user' but I did it anyways and now I know it's probably bad practice.
If your on a mac and working w/ MySQL and/or ColdFusion, you'll probably find it handy to have these added to your PATH. These instructions assume you're using the Bash shell and you've installed MySQL 5 from binary and ColdFusion 8 standalone in their default locations. If you've built MySQL from source and changed it's location or you've chosen an alternative configuration for your ColdFusion server, you probably know what you're doing and these instructions are likely beneath you anyways.
Now that fall's coming around again and we have to wear are hoodies sometimes, I thought it be nice to party w/ a fresh site. You might know that Drupal's hella cool for lot's of reasons. It's huge community, many modules, custom content types, integrations, etc., make this framework ideal and useful for all kinds of applications. But how about as a backend for Flex 2 applications? There are already articles that describe the modules needed and how to configure a flex app to work with drupal.