Trouble accessing MySQL

I have a bunch of MySQL dumps I'd like to load up and analyze, but I can't get into MySQL.
As you can see in the screenshot below, I've started up the server, but I just get the "access denied" error when I try to connect.
I've tried everything, even starting up mysqld_safe with the --skip-grant-tables option and resetting the root password. No joy.
So can anyone tell me what the default root password is? Or maybe anything else I may be doing wrong here?


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