cpanel is a hosting control panel -- your host mustn't use this then
The one with 17 tables? Leave that as is.. The one in your name is the one you want to play with.
phpmyadmin is much easier if you have a basic grasp of mysql first...
Here's a tutorial
http://www.help.thinkhost.com/web-de...ses/phpmyadmin
here is a tutorial of the mysql basics if you don't know them already
http://inpics.net/mysqlbasics.html
Cheers,