Can somoene please guide me to teh right direction

i have installed WAMP

services are sucessfully running

the problem i am having is:

I have put my site in the www/zencart folder

i have changed my database connection strings to
// define our database connection
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('DB_PREFIX', '');
define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');
define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'zencart');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'zencart');
define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?
define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'db'); // use 'db' for best support, or '' for file-based storage


this is both in the
admin/includes & includes configure.php files


the error i am getting is

Sorry!
There seems to be a problem connecting to our database. Please give us a few minutes to remedy the problem. Thank you.



To verify the site status ... Click here


the databse has been assinged users with root and zencart usernaem and password

sorry to sound so dumb but can some1 help me out please