As the installation finished I was instructed to log in as the administrator, go to the administer >> site configuration >> clean urls section of the administrative interface, and look for the paragraph that reads as follows: <some text>.
There is nothing on the page other than a radio box, a notice that my current configuration does not support clean URLs, and no paragraph or option to run the clean URL test.
I must have missed something but I don't know what.
Thanks,
Rich