Help connecting to pool and using gui miner problem

[mrpsychotic]

I have recently downloaded bitcoin and i want to run it with a pool (btc guild) but i am having troubles. I believe these troubles stem from the prrogram I am using to try and connect to the pool which is guiminer.
When I open it up, the first thing I see is the default screen where I type all of the fields and get this message: 2011-06-16 14:15:30: Listener for "Default": 16/06/2011 14:15:30, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC.

One interesting thing that I tried was creating a miner instead of using the default, in which case I get this message:

2011-06-16 14:17:46: Running command: C:\Users\Sean\Downloads\guiminer\miners\puddinpop\rpcminer-cuda.exe -user=##### -password=##### -url=http://btcguild.com:8332
2011-06-16 14:17:46: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1" started
2011-06-16 14:17:46: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Client will start 1 miner threads
2011-06-16 14:17:46: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Work will be refreshed every 4000 ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": 1 CUDA GPU devices found
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Setting CUDA device to first device found
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Loading module bitcoinminercuda_20.cubin
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": CUDA initialized
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,16)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (16,16) 1149ms  prev best=9223372036854775807ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,32)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (16,32) 400ms  prev best=1149ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,64)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (16,64) 345ms  prev best=400ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,128)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (16,128) 290ms  prev best=345ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,256)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (16,256) 269ms  prev best=290ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,16)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (32,16) 1059ms  prev best=269ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,32)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (32,32) 366ms  prev best=269ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,64)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (32,64) 322ms  prev best=269ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,128)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (32,128) 273ms  prev best=269ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,256)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (32,256) 260ms  prev best=269ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,16)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (64,16) 1009ms  prev best=260ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,32)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (64,32) 337ms  prev best=260ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,64)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (64,64) 309ms  prev best=260ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,128)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (64,128) 265ms  prev best=260ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,256)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (64,256) 256ms  prev best=260ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,16)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (128,16) 981ms  prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,32)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (128,32) 322ms  prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,64)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (128,64) 302ms  prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,128)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (128,128) 259ms  prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,256)
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Finding best configuration step end (128,256) 254ms  prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 14:17:56: Listener for "mrpsychotic_1": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,256)

Where the ##### were filled in with my information.
This doesnt appear to have any error message, but when I go back out of the console to the worker screen it says shares: 0 accepted on the bottom left and connecting... on the bottom right without doing anything as far as i can tell.

On the btc guild website they say that connecting to them in this way hooks you up with the overcrowded texas server, so I have tried using the "other" option and putting the california server url to try and get around this but it has no effect.

On a similar post i saw people recommending someting about running bitcoin.conf or using adding a -server to the end of my bitcoin client target. For the first part, when I try searching bitcoin.conf from the start menu, it says no results were found. Also, when i and the -server thing to the end of my target nothing seems to work in guiminer and and when i try to open the client it directs me to open or change something in the appdata.

The problem is I am running windows 7 and unlike my previous computer, I can find no such appdata folder. I am also running bitcoin 3.23 i believe.

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[AWOLRanger]

The appdata folder is hidden in Windows 7, but you can go to C:/users/yourname and then type /appdata in the menu bar and it will go to the folder.

[InstaGx]

The appdata folder is hidden in Windows 7, but you can go to C:/users/yourname and then type /appdata in the menu bar and it will go to the folder.

Alternatively, navigate to %appdata% from anywhere.

[mrpsychotic]

OK thanks, what do you recommend i do there?

[mrpsychotic]

Unfortunately, when i went to appdata i saw bitcoin in the roaming folder but still no bitcoin.conf

[mrpsychotic]

Wtf i cant even click to mine in the main bitcoin client