Post Installation login issues

Hi All

After an embarassingly large amount of time (think days) installing and reinstalling wordpress and talking to go daddy and bribing the tech-savy neighbour with cake and coffee, I have word press installed.

At first I got an FTP error message and was advised to move the contents of the wp file into the root directory. Did that and can now see the sites live.

However latest problem is that when I log into WP I get a ‘this page cannot be found’ message.

does any body have any suggestions on how I can finally get my install up and running ??

Thanks from one tired kiwi