Long story short, I ended up deleting the root user from PHPMyAdmin in EasyPHP. After some researching, I used skip-grant-tables to regain database access. Now, however, I
Been stuck with this a few times over the last few years... Easiest method I've found was today whilst setting up an RPi.
From the terminal run: $sudo mysql_secure_installation
and set up as appropriate for your implementation.
Then, setup user access with: $sudo mysql_setpermission
this will allow you to set a super/root user.
Just follow the prompts.