试图在mac osx 10.6上安装mysql但是我得到一个我需要升级的错误。 问题是版本5.5不适用于osx 10.6

I use mac osx 10.6. I already had phpmyadmin installed. I then proceeded to install mysql version 5.1. That mysql version was recommended for osx 10.6. Everything worked fine until i typed my password into phpmyadmin and i get this error that says i should upgrade mysql server to 5.5. I then proceed to install mysql 5.5, but everytime i tried to open mysql it would crash. My "system preferences" would crash. On top of that phpmyadmin wouldn't let me log in. And the command "mysql -v" would tell me that i was doing something unauthorized. So i decided to remove everything through terminal and re-installed mysql version 5.1. But i still get the error that the version is outdated. What am i doing wrong?