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subroutine clear, now added which will drop all database connections and reset the registry.  NOTE: if you load_all and the registry is loaded the subroutine clear is now automatically called first to clear out the old configuration before loading the new one.

made all registry calls case INsensetive as it was very annoying having to have species, group and type all in the correct case. Also added load_registry_from_db which will load the latest ensembl databases given a database host (and optionally port, user, pass) to search. At prsent only core,variation,estgene,compara and go adaptors are loaded via this method.

fix for no species being specified and more than one core database bring called (connection was not dropped)

changes to ensembl code to handle disconnecting databases properly - disconnect_all, checking for reconnection when doing do and prepare and finishing statement handles in generic_fetch

set_disconnect_when_inactive method added which will disconnect ALL DBConnections and set the flag for disconnect_when_inactive to 1