Somehow broke logger, thereby breaking everything

Well I have PM-ed this to bsilva, but probably can post it here as well, maybe it will help other people too:

Hi BSilva,

I read your post on readynas.com, thanks for sharing! As a totally new linux-user, I tried to figure out what you meant with it. However, I think I figured it out.
You say you have to do this:

NAS:/usr/bin#cd /usr/bin/ -> go to directory /usr/bin/
NAS:/usr/bin#rm -i logger -> remove the logger symlink - don't know exactly what a symlink is, but I did this step
NAS:/usr/bin#vi logger -> open the logger application with vi-editor - creates a new file
In the vi-application press:
A -> go in the file
Copy & paste -> copy and paste the script you posted
Esc:x -> save and quit Vi
NAS:/usr/bin#chmod +x logger -> set the correct file permission

I did all of these steps, resulting in your bash-script being in the /usr/bin/logger file.
Now I execute:
NAS:/usr/bin#/etc/init.d/mysql -start

And now I don't get an error anymore about the logger, but I only see:

"Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!"

I read on another forum that you then need to check /var/log/syslog, I did this and here I see:
Dec 6 20:07:35 NAS1 root: -p daemon.err -t /etc/init.d/mysql -p daemon.debug

I have no idea what to do next. And I really don't know why everything is this difficult in Linux I only want to install php 5.3 and mysql, so I can start programming my sites again, but I'm already busy with installing *** 2 basic and very popular programs for almost 2 days! (maybe it is because I have debian etch?)

Well sorry for the last part, I'm really sad about this, because it takes this much time. However, its people like you that give people solutions why I keep trying. So thanks for that!

Peter