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  ;DProps to hp3kman for his post: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4413.msg19310.html#msg19310
I followed his directions with a little bit of modification to get it to work.

Here is how I did it:

1. Download and unzip this file on your computer: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/civicrm/civicrm-2.1.0-joomla.zip?modtime=1222825956&big_mirror=0
2. Create a directory under ~/administrator/components called com_civicrm2
3. Create a directory under ~/administrator/components/com_installer/component called com_civicrm
4. Transfer the files only to the ~/administrator/components/com_installer/component/com_civicrm directory you just created
5. Transfer the civicrm directory to the ~/administrator/components/com_civicrm2 directory you just created.
6. Edit the civicrm.xml file; delete all references to any files under the civicrm directory-again, ONLY THE FILES UNDER ~/civicrm/.
7. Install from directory using the path ~/administrator/components/com_installer/component/com_civicrm
8. After you get the "Successful installation" prompt, copy the content of ~/administrator/components/com_civicrm2 into ~/administrator/components/com_civicrm

This should work for Joomla 1.5.7 on GoDaddy hosting. Let me know if it works for you as well...

Thanks to hp3kman again!!!

Newbie here, please forgive my ignorance but some clarifications would be helpful.

Questions:   

1. Is your methodology just to get around the Memory, Max_Execution_Time, etc. limits that we can fix with a local php5.ini file?  If so, I presume that if phpinfo() shows the right values, then this isn't going to solve my problems.

2. Assuming otherwise, when I decompress the .zip file, I have com_civicrm with three files (civicrm.html.php, civicrm.php, civicrm.xml), and an admin directory.   In the admin directory I have the civicrm directory, as well as six more files.

In your step 4 where you say "transfer the files only" which files are you talking about?  Do you mean the six files in the admin directory?

3.  In your step 6 you write "references to any files under the civicrm directory" in regard to editing the .xml file.  Could you enlighten me as to which references you mean?  I presume you don't mean <menu> tags or <option>'s, so the only explicit reference I'm seeing is in the <folder> tag down with the Admin files.  Do you mean to remove that whole section? 

Thanks in advance, I know these are dumb questions for anybody who has ever done anything w/ joomla, components, etc. before.  But I haven't, and I've never installed Civicrm anywhere either.   I'm trying to follow instructions verbatim without digging into it myself.

Thanks.