All good until browser stalls - 6.10 too ambitious?

Hey everyone - thanks so much for putting this AMI together. I'm sure once it's working it'll be amazing.

I followed the screencast to the letter but stalled once I tried to launch the public DNS in the browser. Doesn't connect to anything and pinging times out. I copied just the final portion of the output here below (where I saw it started to go awry). Any ideas?

Oh and I was trying to install the latest - version 6.10 - is that too new?

Installing Drupal 5.x from WorkHabit Tools
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
Fetching drupal base install from drupal.org
--15:50:21-- http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.10.tar.gz
=> `drupal-6.10.tar.gz.2'
Resolving ftp.drupal.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52
Connecting to ftp.drupal.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,076,404 (1.0M) [application/x-gzip]
0% [ ] 0 --.--K/s 2% [> ] 31,563 145.39K/s 12% [===> ] 135,819 312.82K/s 36% [============> ] 392,464 602.83K/s 69% [========================> ] 749,128 863.45K/s 100%[====================================>] 1,076,404 1.11M/s
15:50:22 (1.10 MB/s) - `drupal-6.10.tar.gz.2' saved [1076404/1076404]
Moving installation to document root.
Creating Database
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
Reconfiguring settings.php
chmod: cannot access `/var/www/html/sites/default/settings.php': No such file or directory
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not open configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
Stopping MySQL: [FAILED]
Starting MySQL: [ OK ]
500 Can't connect to localhost:80 (connect: Connection refused)
chmod: cannot access `/var/www/html/sites/default/settings.php': No such file or directory
mv: inter-device move failed: `/var/www/html' to `/var/www/html_bak/html'; unable to remove target: Is a directory
ln: `./html': cannot overwrite directory
mv: cannot overwrite directory `/var/lib/mysql_bak/mysql' with non-directory
Restarting apache and mysql
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]
Starting MySQL: [ OK ]
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Kernel 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen on an i686