OK, you guys can stop trying to help me because I have given up for now. I certainly never had trouble figuring out where to look for things on a PC, and if I did, I knew explorer or grep would find it for me -- even when I was very new to it. Also, my PC experience goes back 20+ years, and I will never achieve that with Mac, so I am going to the Apple store for a lesson w/ my list of questions.
If you would like a blow by blow of the many ways I installed it, the versions I used etc to help you PTB figure out what to do about the other build for mac, I can send you the blow-by-blow.
Just to be clear, I wanted to simply USE (even if I had to convert, knowing I would have to move, files) my many scripts, preferences, moods, settings, ccs, all the tiny ash scripts I have created, the relay script I find vital (namely the new mafia-based raidmgr) as well as the aliases, passwords and the other scripts found here to a new computer, which happened to be a Mac. I can do that whole process in under a minute on a PC, so never did I imagine it was something that I would not be able to do or figure out.
I started w/ the latest daily .jar build, and yet - despite all of my files working from that exact set-up on a PC, they DO NOT simply branch from the Mac OS I have - Mac OS X El Capitan -- like they do on a PC. They are not findable in Finder, nor did they show up in a complete computer search. I am guessing they are hidden or blocked from my view, but that makes a daily download which I have to move from the downloads box to the proper place rather difficult. USB stick did NOT work from a mac b/c as both Lost & the wiki said, the files are not kept w/ the mafia build. After doing that, I went to the wiki > install portion and was told to use the whatever file for Macs, so I did that second. After installing that one, it told me my java was too new, and to download an old, unsupported version of java, so I researched running a second/old version of java from something like a USB stick on Macs, and while I have done that begrudgingly on PCs before, a cursory search turned up nothing & I finally asked my first, second & third question (s).
Sorry for not double-posting, but honestly, a full 15 hours -- simply devoted to seeing my own stuff in mafia from the mac had me quite defeated and assuming I would be going to apple to return or get some lessons. When it would be so much simpler to use a PC environment I know well, that seems obvious, but I told them I would give it two weeks, so Apple is in charge of teaching me now and you guys can delete all of this or leave it for posterity - in case I ever get some bright idea about changing to a whole new environment that comes w/o even a mention of what is in the box.
Thank you for your help though, as it has given me a clear idea of what I need to know at the Apple store - whenever I get the time to devote to a lesson on the most simple thing I can think of. Be well - Emma