In a parrallel thread that admin has thankfully killed, David added this reply (if anyone knows how to reach David, please notify him of this reply):
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Haugland has suggested in the past that you could install another copy of PhpMyAdmin for this kind of purpose. But in a reseller enviroment, I'm not really seeing why you'd need to do that. Perhaps you could explain exactly what the instance is.
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Haugland and Marlov are certainly consistent with each other. David asks a fair question. I have a reseller account, but I am using the account for something a little unusual which requires a few pieces of custom code. During the beta period, the developers need easy access to the live environment. Needless to say, I can't give a bunch of strangers access to cpanel.
Actually, I'm surprised that this problem doesn't have an easy fix, (installing multiple instances of phpMYadmin is not easy) because it must be common. Webmasters need to be good tool users, but that doesn't make them developers. Many webmasters are running the business and should be able to assign technical tasks to others without comprimising site security. In this day of Sarbanes-Oxley, any business relying on a cPanel environment would fail the access control tests.
I'll let you know how the phpMYadmin install goes.