After days with support and development engineers we finally got this solved. To save any others the same heartache when you are asked to create a MySQL password the documentation states not to use any of these characters ",[ ]"'`%&<>|^\/();=space". Add "-" (hyphen) to the list. 2 hyphens caused hours of work. But the Netapp personnel that worked with me were just as eager to solve the problem as I was.
-John Russell