Steve,

For making transactions in and out of your wallet, all you need is addnode/connects. (Generally it's best to start with this until your blockchain is up to date). For example, my galaxycoin.conf isn't currently configured for solo mining, it is simply:


If you want to set it up for solo mining later, you'll need to add user/pass, IP and port, etc. For pool mining all you need to do is be able to make transactions, which just requires IPs to connect to. If you need more help there is a video tutorial on the first post of this thread for Win 7/8. Make sure you're doing this from the updated client though