Good evening Anthony,
A> It's really frustrating. There are absolutely no instructions on how to set A> it up. I'd be willing to write them if someone could tell me what I need to A> do to get this Views Ticker running.
Never tried it myself but looking at the issues que, there are instructions on how to set it up:
http://drupal.org/node/332878 http://drupal.org/node/311479