Alright, well I spent the last couple of hours catching up through all the topics I could find on setting it up and I think I got it to work (?)... the terminal at least spits out:
Performing Benchmark...
HPM: 85.2285
logout
[Process completed]
I think now my "only" problem is my wallet says: "0 active connection(s) to ProtoShares network".
How do I fix that?