One other option would be for Cavedude to use ssh port forwarding to get at port 3306. I know putty supports port forwarding as does the sshd server on every linux distro i've seen.
I use it to get at ports remotely that I wouldn't want open to the world to access. It's pretty simple to setup too. I've not done so with putty but I have used it many times through linux ssh.
Let me know if you'd like more information on this.
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