I"ve been trying to sync for roughly 24hours now. I keep getting a msg saying the checkpoint is to old and to wait for the blockchain to download, but it stops at 98% and has stayed there.

ok, as this is a coin that can actually be mined solo, I"d like to try it. lol. I don't unserstand, really, how to create the config file. What info do I put in the username.password section?

I downloaded the latest bitbar client and get the message that I need to download the latest blockchain. I can find a nowhere to do that.  Can someone point the way?

is thee a way to set guiminer to mine litecoins as well as bitcoins?

I've been debating trying to mine litecoins(and probably feathercoins) instead of bitcoins, but have no idea how to set guiminer up to do so. Could someone point me in the correct direction?

I plan on ordering a BLF Jalapeno here in the next week or so, hopefully will get here in sept.

This is my first post(obviously) I got bored the other day and ran across something about bitcoin mining. I did a little bit or research and decided to try it out. My setup is pretty weak right now(roughly 109MH/s), but I hope to beef it up before look. I'm looking at a couple of video cards that should make a drastic difference. The whole thing is still pretty new to me, but what the heck, you never learn to swim if you don'ew get in the water.   One thing that confuses me. What do the various difficulty ratings mean?