In waaaay over my head!!!!! HELP!!!!!!

The company that I work for hired a vendor to upgrade our wireless environment. That company purchased the equipment but then charged a rediculous amount of money to set it up. So of course I was given the task. Though this went way over my head I took it on.
I was given a Cisco 1121 ACS server, 2 Cisco 5500 WAC controllers, and 10  1042 LWAPs  and was told to do the best I can. I was able put the ACS server and WAC boxes on the network. At that point I figured that there was something else that needed to be done. But as a test I connected a LWAP which i set an SSID and I couldnt connect to it no matter what level of authentication I used, even unsecured. My question is do I need to setup a RADIUS server on the ACS box to authenticate???
I've been reading up on the ACS for a couple days and I know it can be used for device and user management. But I assumed that we were only using it to manage our wireless environment, so it wasn't really 'necessary'. Idealy, we simply want to broadcast our company SSID and have devices connect to it using their network credentials.                
i'm not really sure what I need to do next. I have yet to contact Cisco though we do have a support. I just want to make sure all things are in place before I contact them
any help would be GREATLY appreciated
Thank you

hey Matthew, I'm sorry to hear you're getting slammed like that,I would try to get the following questions answer when contacting support at Cisco.
*we simply want to broadcast our company SSID and have devices connect to it using their network credentials.*
based on your comment above  we need to take care of how the ACS will be configure to  authenticate users, if you want users to login with their network credentials you really need to configure ACS to work with your company user database (note:there's a whole support team at Cisco  for ACS and database  set up)
You may wish to investigate Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows Configuring LDAP:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...80092566.shtml
Cisco's ACS Introduction:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...086/index.html
at this point the following reading should be very helpful as well :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080665d18.shtml#c4
second:
there's a big need to clarify what type of supplicants(end-users), will be found on your wireless network phone,windows,mac..etc) in order to have an idea what type of  security  design will work the best when things start getting clearer.
note: I understand your company still has the Access points on the box? if that is the case a wireless site survey will be needed to install them properly ( I understand the money concern but many companies go without a survey and  it is more cost to have someone to fix the mess later on) a site survey is componed of  deep analysis of blueprints of the building, all about site survey's  itself (hardware and software tools  (spectrum analyzer..etc) and  of course the knowledge to deploy the AP properly on their right RF, Channels.. etc  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_site_survey)
there are good design books around as well.
wish you good luck!!

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