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I am a complete novice who is attempting a proof of concept.

I have installed Acquia Drupal on my home PC and successfully dowloaded and imported a copy of our organisation's website (under Drupal 6.9). I have attempted to install CiviCRM 4.1+Drupal 6 and, with two hiccups, the process seemed to work. However there is no reference to "Administer CiviCRM" when I log as user to the website copy and choose administer. There is a CiviCRM heading under Administer>By Module which offers links to Configure permissions and Get help.

The hiccups in the process involved editing index.php to remove constraints on write permissions and copying civicrm.settings.php from sites\default to sites\localOrganisation.

Can any one please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for the response. (We are in significantly different time zones)

Yes I ran the installer. It responded with the page requesting database info. I supplied this info and then it said installation was successful.

I edited index.php to avoid an error generated by an earlier attempt at installation: "The user account used by your web-server needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file..." I was follwing advice given by Deepak Srivastava under http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=5056.0. The edits were to comment out the following lines:

        foreach ( $writableDirectories as $dir ) {
            $this->requireWriteable( CIVICRM_DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $dir,
                array("File permissions", "Is the $dir folder writeable?", null ),
                true );
        }

When I try to visit the CiviCRM home page, i.e. mysite.com/?q=civicrm ?, I get "Page not found".

The OS is Windows XP Professional 5.1.