I had a hard time getting going too and a pool would have been nice. I'm theoretically mining with cpu and finally got cgminer with jane patch running.
I had to google wallet cgminer solo mining or something to put all the pieces together.
I thought I had mined scrypt jane with my normal cgminer before so had to run and download new crap. Finally got running at the tale end of diff 3 so I missed the good mining time.
Not knowing how to wallet mine with a gpu or make a conf file is not the fault of coin devs so while it was frustrating I can't blame them.
The fact that they chose to hold the pool kind of smells like they wanted to grab the low diff blocks before the hoards got in. To avoid this kind of accusations dev's should have a pool and test the thing before launch or there will be loads of people trashing the coin because they cant mine.
so far 30 min at 550kh and no coins after 2 hours of getting set up and a day or two of watching for and preparing for launch so at this point not really worth the frustration.
Be thankful that you only wasted 30 mins of electricity I was mining from the start and got nothing either