Progress

I have finished adjusting the ServerClient example code so that it will be able to be used by the simple Query JSP I am building to populate a drop down of available resources. The next step after this would be to use Globus MDS to figure out which nodes have OGSA-DAI installed, and then you basically can pick a node, pick a resource, and run a query... which is very well along the lines of then picking multiple nodes/resources and running a query on them...

Otherwise, after reading through the Ogsa-Dai documentaion more, there are files you can make that simplify the resource creation process, and it would be easy to write scripts and UI's that create/modify such files... so it appears that frustration has created some ideas for more useful applications.

Dan also helped point out that it was very likely a MySQL JDBC issue.