Jason,
Thanks for your email, the information you have provided is very helpful.
However, I did just want to point out that:
* CouchDB does not support Windows at this time.
Any Windows documentation is community owned, so YMMV.
* The documentation found is on a wiki, which means anyone can edit it. What
you were working from has been distilled by other motivated users, such as
yourself, who took the care to correct things and add more instructions.
Along those lines, please edit the wiki to incorporate your own feedback.
Thank you for taking the time to feedback to the list!
Best,
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater