Fantastico :-(

[privatep]

Hi guys,
I am completely new to all this but am in the final stages of building my online store.
I have been trying to work out how to get zen cart working for 3 hours now & i just have no idea what is going wrong!
I have been through countless threads & tutorials & i must be missing something because i cant even get access to the admin pannel!
if anyone wants to enlighten me it'd be much appreciated!

[dbltoe]

If you searched for Fantastico, you'll find that it is NOT recommended by many in this forum. It makes some decisions that are not always beneficial as you have found. Take a look at your directory structure and see if it didn't create a zc_admin directory. If so, you need to change that and change the listing in the configure.php.
You might also want to restart with the new 1.5.0 RC1 and use the standard method to install it.
There are docs that come with each version and you would also need to be aware of changes when hosting on Windows.