Configuring Certs in ejabberd-2

Hi I have no experience at all in dealing with certs or setting up certs on a server. However, I'm trying to connect to a MySQL server that is setup to only allow SSL encryption through port 4150. I was wondering how I was suppose to set this up in the ejabberd.cfg file?

I'm using LDAP for authentication and MySQL just to store information. I can connect to the MySQL database using the secure login name and port using the mysql utility so i know that I'm entering the username and password correctly. However when i attempt to use the same information in ejabberd.cfg i get an error message:

=ERROR REPORT==== 21-Apr-2008::08:39:51 ===
E(<0.265.0>:ejabberd_odbc:313) : MySQL connection failed: login_failed

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks