Too Many Connections...

Hey all!

I am connecting to the MySQL database through the ODBC 3.51 driver and for some reason the connections are not closing.
My VB code looks like this:

myconnection.Open()

some code.....

myconnection.Close

I am even closing the reader just in case.
yet I still have open connections after the page loads. and after a while it reaches max connections.

Any Ideas? Thanks for the help

I am using Mysql Administrator to see the connections and it says "Sleep" in the command column if that helps any.