You are starting out just like our top producers did. Having responsibility for a lab of computers sometimes means getting rid of flowers and fishy screensavers and allowing the CPUs to do real work in the off time.
I'll post better instructions after church, but for now go here and download the GUI Folding@Home 5.03 to get a feel for the program:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
We will eventually move you to the 5.04 console version, but it makes more sense if you can see the program in action.
Very important - you need a user name (we mostly use our FReeper names) and the team needs to be 36120. Leave everything else as default for now.
Forget what I said about the console version right away. TB's advice is better.