Problems connecting using MM.MySQL JDBC driver - Please Help

Question

I have been trying to get the driver to work for the past two days and have hit a brick wall. If someone could offer any ideas on what other steps to try I would so much appreciate it. Here's the situation:
I'm working on Mac OS X.1, jdk 1.3, mysql (database) and using the mm.mysql driver version 2.0.6.1. I'm using a test script which loads the driver, tries to connect to the 'test' database (which doesn't require a username/password) and then prints out the systems date when successful.
//load the driver
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver");
//Try connecting to db
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:mysql:///test", "", "");
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT now();");
while (rset.next())
System.out.println(rset.getString(1));
// Close result set, statement and DB connection
rset.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
The problem is that everytime I run the script I get an error telling me that the driver could not be found:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
��������at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
��������at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
������at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
��������at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:297)
��������at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.j
The mysql database is running in the background, the driver's path location has been added to my classpath and I've also tried modifying the driver name as well as using older versions of the driver itself, but still no luck. This needs to be up and running so I can finalize a project I've been working on. If anyone has any ideas on what I could possibly try next, I welcome the suggestions.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I didn't realize you had to extract the information either.
Ok.. so I downloaded the latest jar file from sourceforge, extracted the data and IT WORKED!! Thank you so much. You saved my head from exploding.
Many thanks.
-c