I have everything pretty much buttoned up at this point. Allow me to explain what I have done so far so as to avoid confusion.

I installed snort from a binary file with IDS Center 2001, installation was smooth, I got the snort.conf file all setup to include everything listed below:

include webcgi-lib
include webcf-lib
include webiis-lib
include webfp-lib
include webmisc-lib
include overflow-lib
include finger-lib
include ftp-lib
include smtp-lib
include telnet-lib
include misc-lib
include netbios-lib
include scan-lib
include ddos-lib
include backdoor-lib
include ping-lib
include rpc-lib

I have an external log file viewer/editor set to use Notepad.exe.
I have the IP of the computer I wish to monitor set at 192.168.0.2/32.
I have set the log directory to c:\Snort\snortlog
I have the following flags turned on: -d -C -b -A -c

Theres 2 things so far that I have not been able to overcome, in the GUI (IDS Center) in the overview section in the error log it states "|> Snort Logdir doesn´t exist". I figured I had it set to c:\snort\snortlog???? edit even if I turn logging off it still wants a logdir, grrrrr.

I figured, oh well, I'll fire it up just to see if I got it to work, after all that ****, and when I do it says "generate a script first" WTF?

I'm not really interested in a bulletproof install as this is for purely educational purposes only (think 192.168.0.2 set up as the DMZ server ) Any help would be greatly appreciated.