Error - #1251

[Craig Hoffman]

I upgrade to 4.1.9 last night and I keep getting this error in 
PhpMyAdmin after I changed the root password (yes I changed both pw's). 
  Does anyone have a solution on how to fix this?  I'm running a Mac 
10.3.x

#1251 - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by 
server; consider upgrading MySQL client