what is this shit...i'm a new user and didn't get a welcome...you all suck :-P (just kidding...my user name is kcormier over in the stats page though...lol)
and yea...if you install it using the console version then it's super easy!
As for multicore processors, are you using the new smp beta version or just the stable release? From what I've read, the smp beta version only works on some cores! :-\