I went back through and tried what you have suggested, esok. When I use the readme file it opens in WordPad, and I think it’s supposed to open in Explorer because I can’t make heads or tails of it.
When I try and save my wp-config-sample.php as just wp-config.php I either can’t find it or it doesn’t save to where I told it to. I filled in the details and clicked Save As, but it’s still showing up as ‘sample’ and when I open it, my info’s gone.
Also, I’m not sure what you mean, but I believe I put WordPress in the web server’s root director. I opened my domain in FTP in IE, then opened My Docs and dragged WordPress folder over, in literal terms.
I’m still getting the 404, but I’ll keep trying to save as config.php!