I GOT IT! :D
I ended up going back to the activity monitor and searching for "mysql" and then hitting force quit and it stopped it. Although I had tried this previously and it did not work, for some reason it worked now.
I have Homebrew installed however I installed the mysql community server - Mac OS X 10.7 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive, yesterday.
I then used the command
sudo cp /usr/local/mysql/support-files/my-default.cnf /etc/my.cnf
to finish the job. I also have MAMP installed but I wanted to follow along in this class I'm taking so I went with what they were using.
On top of that I've been playing around with these alfred workflows and I found a couple that are really cool but I'm not going to use them anymore until I know more of what I'm doing because I think they are what screwed things up so bad.
Here are the links to them both though. They basically allow you to start and stop your servers via alfred. If you know what you are doing they can be a nice little time saver.