Yeah, if your going to set one up at least know the basics, otherwise without a developer on 24/7 you won't know how to do any basic edits or fixes if needed. There's plenty of tutorials online also.
Download the SWF's for the 25k 50k and 100k credits from Devbest or ***** or ***** and then follow the usual steps to add them in. Make sure you fix the exploit where they can get a lot of credits though from these bars using Tanji
Event alert was a GTE Command but you can code it in yourself i think. There probably is a Event alert command for plus but i cannot recall as i get confused between the different commands. But pretty sure it was R63a only. Unless coded yourself.
Rushed a little bit? That's exactly what you don't want to do. "Any mistakes in this article it's because" Should be corrected also to Any mistakes in this article, are because i rushed it a little bit. There's a few other errors also but no point going on about them. You should list specific...
Oh, There's probably a guide on devbest on that also, so i wont go into detail. All i can really recommend is checking your external vars and images and making sure everything is linked properly.
Yeah, the clothing you will need to add yourself to the catalog then the figuredata. And i don't know what the issue with your groups are so i won't comment.There should be a guide for The SWF's somewhere already on devbest which i haven't looked for but a search should locate one.