I've just installed MHonArc on my server, which was a task because I have never used telnet/ssh before today, so I needed to learn that first. That should give you a sense of by newbie-ness. Smart enough to get telnet working and install MHonArc, but apparently not smart enough to do much else (see below).
I have a few dopey questions:
(1) After the initial installation, is there a web page you can go to on your site that is a MHonArc home page or something?
No, MHonArc is not web based by default.
I have written a help script for MHonArc: http://www.gunnar.cc/mhonarc/mhastart.pl.html
I wrote mhastart.pl in order to be able to use MHonArc without any kind of shell access. The script has a simple web interface, and even if you obviously have shell access, when reading your message I get a feeling that you might find mhastart.pl useful. Actually I believe that some of your questions might be implicitly answered by using it.
-- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl