Please, please, please look over the CVS tutorials Bryon has painstakingly put together. They are his pride and joy.
And try editing the CONTACTS file found in the gamesman root directory. It is just a version of Dan's alias file, but on CVS and open for all to play with. Just don't ruin other people's posts, 'cause that's rude.
Instructions: http://gamescrafters.sourceforge.net/developers/cvs-general.html