I guess this is locally. Which setup? Mamp, Wamp, Xampp, OSX, XP, Win7 etc etc.
STEP 1 IN MAGENTO DEVELOPMENT - DISABLE YOUR CACHE OR YOU WON'T SEE ANY CHANGES.
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My fault the site is hosted, however when I installed, wronly / rightly assumed that smaple data would be installed with rocket launcher. Reinstalled with the sample data added first to database and installation happened with out problem.