Help with Activator.CreateInstance for DB Provider

Question

I followed the Activator.CreateInstance method but I can't get this core piece to work. I have a MSAccess db provider for testing purposes but keep getting a compiling error. Can someone help me as to what I'm doing wrong?

namespace Company.DAL
{
    public abstract class ConfigProvider : DataAccess
    {
        static private ConfigProvider _instance = null;
        static public ConfigProvider Instance
        {
            get
            {
                if (_instance == null)
                    _instance = (ConfigProvider)Activator.CreateInstance(
                       Type.GetType(Company.DAL.MdbClient.MdbConfig));
                return _instance;
            }
        }

        public abstract string GetConfigValue(ConfigXML site, string id, string name);
    }
}

Then in the "interchangable" data access layer I have this:
namespace Company.DAL.MdbClient
{
    public class MdbConfig : ConfigProvider
    {
        public override string GetConfigValue(ConfigXML site, string id, string name)
        {
            try
            {
                string connString = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[site.SettingsTable.ConnectionStringName].ConnectionString;
                string sqlCmd = "SELECT Value FROM " + site.SettingsTable.TableName + " WHERE UCASE(id)='" + id.ToUpper() + "' AND UCASE(name)='" + name.ToUpper() + "'";

                using (OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(connString))
                {
                    OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(sqlCmd, conn);
                    conn.Open();

                    object obj = cmd.ExecuteScalar();

                    if (obj.Equals(System.DBNull.Value))
                        return string.Empty;
                    else
                        return (string)obj;
                }
            }
            catch
            {
                return string.Empty;
            }
        }
    }
}

Then in my aspx page I'm calling the method like this:
Response.Write(ConfigProvider.Instance.GetConfigValue(domain, "company", "Address1"));

But I get this error:
Compiler Error Message: CS0119: 'Company.DAL.MdbClient.MdbConfig' is a 'type', which is not valid in the given context
Source Error:
Line 21:                 if (_instance == null)
Line 22:                     _instance = (ConfigProvider)Activator.CreateInstance(
Line 23:                        Type.GetType(Company.DAL.MdbClient.MdbConfig));
Line 24:                 return _instance;
Line 25:             }