CKEDITOR for WordPress doesn't work

I am using WordPress 3.1.3 and PHP 5.2.4. I activated the plugin, and the settings appear on the back-end for me to configure, etc. When I try to edit a comment, the CKEDITOR does come up (though the original WordPress editor also stays there giving me two editors), but on the plug-in that I am working on for my site’s admin, it does not appear (I just have the default WordPress implementation). I am not getting any errors on Firebug (I am using Firefox 3.6). Am I missing something here? Is there some code I need to run to implement the replacement. Right now I am simply calling the_editor() with all of the necessary scripts included.

Thanks in advance…I haven’t been a developer for about a year, but I haven’t really done anything with WordPress before.