2ninerniner2 these were awesome instructions. I am not at all WP literate and between my son and I, trying to get an install done properly was so frustrating. And thanks to Emitray for the added WAMP instructions. It worked perfectly.
The only thing I would add is that I had ISS running as well as SKYPE running. Both seemed to use Port 80 so Apache didn’t start properly. I disabled IIS and then quit Skype and WAMP started just like it was supposed to.
Now on to building a real site.