I got the previous miner (from the dropbox) installed to the point where I can successfully bring up the help menu, but as I was doing so, instructions on Page 1 got updated to:
git clone https://github.com/Max-Coin/cpuminer
Am I good to go? I tried entering the line above and it just tells me "you need to install git"
Yes, you are. The one posted earlier is the same miner.
If you want to install from Github, you will need to install the updated dependencies (git).