Drupaltized for *real* this time!

I've been beating my head against the wall trying to install Drupal on the RadioMac for several weeks. I have a bunch of projects on hold right now because I can't get it working, including my official professional site, which I really need up to I can make business cards, etc. I finally gave up doing it fully manually and switched back to MAMP, which pre-installs compatible and tested versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I *finally* got both Drupal 5.15 and 6.9 working on my system! No error messages, no missing GD, no whining about cron running. Both versions are functioning 100% error free.

Tomorrow I will actually add *content!*

I'm also shopping for hosting services. I've had at least one vote for Dreamhost, though I have some concerns about the speed of SQL queries on them using Drupal. For now my websites will probably be pretty low traffic, but I can reasonably assume I will eventually have some social network stuff with 100+ users on it. Any other recommendations?

Ew!

There's hair growing out of my face!!!

There's a special kind of torture...

...waiting for .Net to install on an emulated copy of Window XP running on your PowerPC Mac when you're trying to do 10 other things at once...

My embarassment at having to look up the word "plutocracy..."

...was only increased when I actually read the definition.

Luckily I have my monogrammed virgin-silk single-use handkerchiefs here to console me.