I have installed twice, restarted my machine to make sure all is
well. However, the Emacs Client window shows: Waiting for Emacs
server to start and yet the SLIME REPL buffer appears to be
functional and various messages like: Connected Your hacking starts
now! show up in the status. Eventually
This sounds like a problem with emacs server/client that might be unrelated
to Clojure or Slime. Some configurations of emacs will start a server mode
so that you can run emacsclient and have a new frame pop up instantaneously.
If you don't need emacsclient then you might look in the clojure box