New User (Problems getting started)

[Cliff Pruitt]

Hey everyone,  I'm just trying Lilypond for the first time today and  
I'm hoping this list is a resource that can help me out a bit.

I use an Intel based Mac running OS X 10.4.8.  I'm hoping to get  
Lilypond running via the command line (not via the OS X GUI).  The  
hope is to use Lilypond for my church in some automated way, possibly  
via PHP running on our local network.  I am unfortunately having  
problems with the setup though.

First, the OS X binary seems to have some kind of problem locating a  
font cache file (?).  It says something about the missing file &  
crossing my fingers, but it seems to compile the sample scale file  
nonetheless.  So I can at least seem to get that far, but  
unfortunately that doesn't let me run Lilypond from the command line.

So second I tried the BSD installer version.  The installer runs  
file, but trying to actually run the binary fails with not much more  
than a "Problem executing binary" type of message.

I guess my first question would be, is there any way to run Lilypond  
via the command line on an OS X system?  If so, might anyone be kind  
enough to point me in the right direction on how to get it up &  
running?  I'm not a novice user and am somewhat familiar with Unix &  
the command line, though I am by no means an expert on that end of  
things.

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Cliff