Installation
Civicrm sits on top of a CMS: either Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla!. When installing on top of Drupal, if you have the HTMLPurifier module enabled, you will run into a conflict that you can resolve by disabling the module in Drupal proper, or else modifying the bootstrap code in civicrm [1]
After installation, there is a checklist that you should complete (e.g. http://example.org/civicrm/admin/configtask)