Thank you so much for the write up. I followed alls teps but you lost me in this part:

On the cube config page, enter the IP of the computer with the stratum proxy on as the server address. Enter it twice as the cube needs two pools to start mining, ie "192.168.1.102,192.168.1.102"
Username and password is for Slush's pool, stick with that for now
Click update, then go back to the config IP you set

Server address? Is that pool adresses? entered twice? it was entered automatically for me.

Username and password? where do I enter those? in the GUI miner? It doesn't recognize my miner? What should I do?

I have the stratum proxy running but no idea what to do with it.

Go back to the config IP you set. What is that? the IP on the cube config page that I changed to .200?

I'm a complete noob here so i appreciate all the help.

Thanks