Woo, I made a nice HowTo for Micah's CIA Project. Most of the people having problems with CIA are Sourceforge people, and since I've setup CIA a couple of times, I figured I would write a howto for it. Anyhow, here it is if you are interested:
http://cia.navi.cx/doc/sourceforge-howto
This is similar to the IRC howto I wrote for Adium a while back: