One of the biggest problems I had when I was first installing Joomla & Virtuemart was understanding why the default files were unwriteable. Hopefully my video tutorial will make things clear for others. If you have any questions please ask away :-)
Watch my Step-By-Step video tutorial to help you get going with Joomla + Virtuemart
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