SD+ To MySQL 5

Ok, So after reading through all of the previous post I still cant get SD+ to run on my instance of MySQL 5 on our db server.

Based on the previous posts I have changed the mysql-ds.xml file to point to my DB server with the appropriate user name and password, I have tried with root privileges also with the same issue. When i launch SD+ It gets about half way through then crashes, there are no error reported in any of the logs the application just seems to shut down. I'm running SD+ 5.5.0.7

mysql-ds.xml

<datasources>
<local-tx-datasource>
<jndi-name>MySqlDS</jndi-name>
<connection-url>jdbc:mysql://10.10.x.x:3306/servicedesk</connection-url>
<driver-class>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</driver-class>
<user-name>servicedesk</user-name>
<password>servicedesk</password>
<transaction-isolation>TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED</transaction-isolation>
<connection-property name="useUnicode">true</connection-property>
<connection-property name="characterEncoding">UTF-8</connection-property>
</local-tx-datasource>

</datasources>

nms-service.xml
<attribute name="StartDBServer">false</attribute>