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Just some things I've found on my install - only the first two are in any way material:

1. On install the "Resource URL" wasn't set (as anything). This means that none of the graphics or menus work, and without that you can't navigate to the page to set the Resource URL. Had to copy the URL from a working Civi installation to get me to the right page. The Resource URL needs to default to DOMAIN/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm (but without copying it from a working install I'm not sure I'd have guessed that) and then it all works fine. Not sure why that happened to me, but it happened both on a clean install and on an upgrade of a (previously working) 3.1 site.

2. The boxes that should open to display a map (Opera 10 and Firefox 3.6) and when you click actions (Opera 10, not Firefox 3.6) are the wrong size and pretty much unusable. See attached screenshots.

3. When configuring it I happened to configure the Settings-Outbound Email before setting domain information. I got a yellow "fatal error" message, but it helpfully provided a link to the page to fix the issue so the error was caught nicely: I'd just query whether it should return an error at all.

4. In tag sets it gives the option of making the tag set "Reserved". I presume in (ACL-less) Joomla that's redundant. This permissioning item appears throughout. Generally Civi-for-Joomla doesn't mention permissions. Does no harm, just a presentational thing.

5. I used one of the custom searches (by date added) and it found (correctly) two contacts which I had added while testing. I deleted both, and then got a "Non recoverable error. Could not get details for custom search. Return to home page (link)". It is intended to throw an error, or should it report zero results as it would have done otherwise? EDIT: Neither of the contacts was actually deleted. The same appears to happen even if only one of them is marked for deletion.

6. On install, existing settings for a mapping provider were lost. Usually on upgrade they are preserved. Likewise the reCaptcha public (but not the private one).

7. Partly because some of my settings had gone missing, I was running down the configuration checklist. With payment processors the process was a bit confusing because it encouraged me to add a new payment processor without giving any indication (until I tried and was told that it was a duplicate) that there was already one there which was properly set up.