Thanks. Still not working. This time it's not immediately giving me an error that it couldn't find the XML file, but it's been loading for about 30 minutes and still hasn't installed. When I tried about an hour ago, I stopped it after 15 min, and it appeared to have loaded some of the files, as it showed up in my Components menu in the backend. However, when I clicked on any of the menu items in JoomlaComment, it gave me an error. [Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/.../administrator/components/com_comment/toolbar.comment.html.php on line 29] So I uninstalled it and am back to trying to load it.
I have another site designed in Joomla besides this one, so I'm not a complete newbie.... I've never had anything take this long. I'm using Firefox, BTW. Other components are installing fine, so I don't think it's a server or permission issue.