I was able to get ACS running. The last snag was referring to hostname in my nsd.tcl file as localhost.localdomain (not localhost.com)
Overall the installation process was quite confusing and frustrating. Wish I had seen the link below (which I found via the Q&A forums) sooner.
http://neasys.lyang.net/openacs/quickinstall.html
Perhaps this can become the simple install (which currently isn't very simple)?
