>If anyone could help a clueless newbie I would really
>appreciate it.
sorry i forgot to reply to your other questions. Once you have CM loaded, you can load in CLM:
(load "/path/to/clm-2/all.lisp")
To start up under xemacs do:
bin/cm.sh -e xemacs
that url to the install.html file should tell you how to do everything.