Moodle on OS X

I've just run up an OS X 10.4.8 server on a dual processor G4 machine. I would like to run the educational package 'Moodle' on this machine.
Has anyone tried this before and can you offer any advice on setting it up?

We did. No problems. Running smoothly.
Having installed Moodle in about 5 minutes and found it was rather easy.
I created a test course (with 4 true/false questions), set it so guests can access the course wihtout a key (it's just a test course) and I can't get it to issue the test, I tried adding a page but this didn't help.
Maybe if you have some time you can log in as the admin and see if you can fix what I did wrong, document the missed steps so that we can generate some courses to be used in conjuction with this forum?
OMG, I'm asking for help.
I retain so much information that I can make anything work but using the software for anything is usually outside of the scope of my requirements.
Anyway, if you can help send me an e-mail off-forum and we can go from there.

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