UPDATE: Instructions are not incomplete. I’m an idiot.
I expected the plugin to work like the daring fireball site does. Meaning not just the RSS feed is changed but also the URL of the permalink on the actual website.
But the plugin doesn’t claim any such functionality.
It would be nice though. Any idea if that is possible w/ this plugin?
Thanks a lot!
In case this helps anyone, the problem you were having all along seems to be you left your port settings as MAMP had them listed by default. I followed a tutorial that had me change them to 80/3306 from the start (http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-install-wordpress-locally-on-a-mac). This probably may have avoided your initial problem I’m guessing.
In any case, looks like you got it working anyway. That’s a nice tutorial as well. Tempted to follow it…