Hi all,
Well, I still couldn't get it working with Xampp - the installation process seems fine, but when I launch Xerte, all the buttons are greyed out. I can type in what I want a new folder or L.O. to be called, but not actually create one.
However, after much tinkering / reading posts on this forum / trying to figure out what on earth PHP and MySQL are, I've finally managed to get Xerte up and running on a shared host (a different one - no one-click install!). I can successfully add an image!
The only problem I have now is that I'm at my in-laws' for Christmas, and for some reason their Parental Controls are blocking access to Ron's tutorial / assets (of course they don't remember the password!). Must be a pretty exciting tutorial!
Thanks for all the help and advice,
Jon