4 Hours is nothing, just reading on setting up Linuxcoin with SmartCoin took that, going back and forth seeing my setup wouldn't work and finally did get it working. Just add trying to find out the best settings for Phoenix and phatk took a good 30 minutes for my cards.
Definitely +1 to that. My only regret after lurking for hours on end is that I didn't sign up right off the bat, so now I have to lurk for four more hours. 