Thanks for the help, I am getting it sorted out a bit I guess...


I see that there is the "receive coins" tab, and this is the number/account (what do you call this?)  I share if I want to GET coins.

Mine is : 1QCvEe6xU6Dsh83bxEaEsh8ftGnoqUvgoH

now, if I want to send coins , there is a place for me to enter a number there too (who ever I am sending too)....

However, I get confused as soon as I start to think about my "account"

Do I have a account number, . or just send and receive address?

There is a back up option, it makes a "DAT" file, is that the file I need to keep track of.

I am sorry, for noob questions, but just fighting with terms and some of the concepts.

THANKS YOU for all the help, it is really appreciated

Using the latest official 0.8.1 for Linux. bitcoind stopped downloading at block 182687 and I get a warning to upgrade:
64 # ./bitcoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 80100,
    "protocolversion" : 70001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 182687,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 1591074.96184731,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1367805478,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : "Warning: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade."
}

I found there is a similar problem for the Ubuntu PPA version, related to BDB, but I doubt this is the same thing. I don't see BDB in the dynamic dependencies - it must be statically linked:
64 # ldd bitcoind
   linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff617ff000)
   libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f586a24e000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f586a04a000)
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f5869e2c000)
   libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f5869b29000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f586982d000)
   libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f5869616000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f5869257000)
   /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f586a487000)

Posting here, because restricted to the more appropriate places!