@PauloCereda Ah I know about that (Mum in my case:-) Although one of my prouder moments a few years back when M was about 6 he sat at Mum's machine to play on some website and just looked in disgust at IE and said to his grandmother "haven't you got firefox?!"
@percusse: It took me a while, but I fixed it... The solution was given to me by that post: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/101750/non-pdf-special-ignored-texlive-pstricks-osx-mac
I wish someone would write a script to autofind the fastest CTAN mirror from your location. It used to be easy to tell that the Waterloo mirror would be the fastest (since I within spitting distance of UW) but now that I'm on the west coast I'm not sure.