We as 3rd party empeg developers aren't trying to be elitist by not providing a painless install procedure -- we just haven't developed a painless procedure yet.

While I agree that there is not a painless procedure yet, I think it's the responsibility of the developers to include complete installation instructions, regardless of the level of pain involved.

For instance, I think the instructions should tell them exactly what to type at each step, even down to telling them how to set the drives read-only and read-write, how to CHMOD the files, and exactly what reservecache= setting needs to go in their config.ini.

I agree that none of that stuff is painless, but I think those instructions should still be included with the product.