I had trouble getting things started, primarily because I am new to Linux and I was fed too much information. Kevin at World Community Grid was kind enough to tolerate my requests for assistance and provided me with very simple installation instructions. Here they are for your reference - if you are having any trouble getting this to work:

Remove the BOINC stuff that you have installed so far.

Create a directory where you want to download and install BOINC on your server. I used /home/boinc

For simplicity's sake, you can create a user named boinc and give it SSH access (and root access if possible).

In the /home/boinc directory run the following commands
1.)

wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

2.)

chmod 700 boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

3.)

./boinc_5.2.7_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

This will create a directory /home/boinc/BOINC where all the files are
installed.

go into this directory (by typing "cd BOINC" - no quotes - while logged in as boinc and run the following command

4.)

./boinc -attach_project http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org <key>

<key> is a 32 character string and is
whatever Account Key you were assigned
when you downloaded the Linux client
(it was also emailed to you)

***I am assuming I can just exit my SSH client after it fully initializes and runs, but I am not sure. I do not know how to check the status if I open a new SSH session.***

Finally - you may want to upload a script named "boinc " and copy it in your /etc/init.d/ folder.

You want to make sure this boinc script has lines 41 through 44 to read as follows:

BOINCUSER=boinc
BOINCDIR=/home/boinc/BOINC
BUILD_ARCH=i686-pc-linux-gnu
BOINCEXE=/home/boinc/BOINC/run_client

If you follow these steps then you should be able to run the software.

You are not recommended to manually change any permissions on any files, as this is not needed.

There is something that can be done in directory /etc/rc3.d so

./boinc start

runs when the server boots up and

./boinc stop

runs when the server shuts down or gets ready to reboot - but I do not know what it is. My system admin did it for me.