Yep! I ran the following commands from the mysql quickstart:

[root@ops:~] #alternatives --set libbaccats.so /usr/lib64/libbaccats-mysql.so
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

[root@ops:~] #chmod +r /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf /etc/bacula/bat.conf

Made sure that my passwords all matched up in the config files:

[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #grep -i 'secret' *.conf
bacula-dir.conf:  Password = "secret"         # Console password
bacula-dir.conf:  Password = "secret"          # password for FileDaemon
bacula-dir.conf:#  Password = "secret"        # password for FileDaemon 2
bacula-dir.conf:  Password = "secret"
bacula-dir.conf:  Password = "secret"
bacula-dir.conf:#  Password = "secret"         # password for Storage daemon
bacula-dir.conf:  Password = "secret"
bacula-fd.conf:  Password = secret
bacula-sd.conf:  Password = "secret"
bconsole.conf:  Password = "secret"

(changed so as to not give away the password).

And after taking those steps, I still find find no MySQL  support in the bacula-dir binary!!

[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #ldd $(which bacula-dir) | grep mysql
[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #

[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #ldd $(which bacula-dir)
        libbacfind-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/libbacfind-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaaaab8000)
        libbacsql-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/libbacsql-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaaacc5000)
        libbaccats-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/libbaccats-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaaaeee000)
        libbaccfg-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/libbaccfg-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaab0f5000)
        libbac-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/libbac-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaab2ff000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002aaaab568000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab785000)
        libwrap.so.0 => /lib64/libwrap.so.0 (0x00002aaaab989000)
        libssl.so.6 => /lib64/libssl.so.6 (0x00002aaaabb92000)
        libcrypto.so.6 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.6 (0x00002aaaabde1000)
        libcap.so.1 => /lib64/libcap.so.1 (0x00002aaaac132000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002aaaac336000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002aaaac637000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaac8ba000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaacac8000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00002aaaace22000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00002aaaad07d000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00002aaaad292000)
        libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00002aaaad4aa000)
        libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00002aaaad6d8000)
        libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00002aaaad96e000)
        libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00002aaaadb70000)
        libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00002aaaadd96000)
        libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00002aaaadf9e000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00002aaaae1a0000)
        libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00002aaaae3b6000)
        libsepol.so.1 => /lib64/libsepol.so.1 (0x00002aaaae5ce000)

Thanks for the suggestions. Wondering where to go from here.. ! :)

Tim