Installing from app store????

Ok my first attempt at using ANYTHING from the app store failed. I downloaded (and it appeared to install properly), one of the freebies, "WeatherBug", and although it appeared to install (I had the icon on the home screen and when I went back to the app store, it said it was installed), when I selected it, all it done was just go back to the original "Home" screen from which I opted to run it. As I said, this is my first attempt at the app store. Is there something I'm missing here? Seems pretty straight forward (download, install, run). I would appreciate any help anyone can give me. Thanks.

I can't install either, but I KNOW why, and the answer is ASTONISHING. For whatever reason, my iPhone is, when I push the APP STORE icon, accessing -- get ready for it -- the APP STORE IN GERMAN!!!! All the descriptions are in GERMAN, and attempts to download from the APP STORE get a message that "Your account is only authorized to make purchases fro the US iPhone App Store". I can't even download and install FREE applications ("KOSTENLOS" in GERMAN. Sigh...)
I and my iPhone are in, and have never left, the US -- haven't even left the STATE. I am on the ATT network (i.e. I'm not using a "jailbroken" iPhone".) And, a friend holding another iPhone right next to mine, accesses the correct store (the US STORE).
A call to iPhone tech support yielded nothing but frank astonishment, no explanation, and no suggestion as to how to "fix" this other than to wipe and restore the phone. Won't bother. I won't spend this SUNDAY wiping and restoring my phone, re-entering BLUETOOTH codes for earpieces, picking my favorite cities, stocks, and on, just to see how well AIM works on my iPhone (worked just fine on my TREO -- see below...)
(personal note -- I am DEEPLY disappointed with my one year experience with the iPhone. Switching from this device from my TREO 650 was easily one of the biggest mistakes of my personal career. I paid $600 and lost 50% of the functionality of my previous device, overnight. Only my 20 year brand loyalty to APPLE, the prospect of derisive comments from my BLACKBERRY carrying co-workers, and my general stubbornness, have kept this device in my pocket. It is the first APPLE purchase I've ever regretted, and sincerely hope it is the last -- one to regret, not last purchase-- I have my eye on an APPLE TV...heh...)

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