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I must sound really suck-ish at this game for saying this, but I can't get a graphics set working!!
I downloaded the "Lazy Newb" package and I'm trying to get the Mayday graphics. I click on them and then click "install", it installs the grpahics, and then it asks to update, I click yes, but it says I have no savegames to update, yet when I get on my either of my fortresses, it still has ASCII graphics....
Can anyone help me?

I was fighting a cougar with my bare hands, when it knocked me into a lake. It jumped in after me, and I was able to puncture it's heart, but now I can't get out of the lake!! There are no slopes around it. My character is drowsy, and it's night-time. Please help!!

I have three noob questions. I just got this game a couple days ago, And I'm struggling to keep my dwarves alive at the moment.

Question 1: I need to get some water onto an area in my fortress to start a farm, but I can't seem to get my dwarves to use the buckets I made to gather the water, and then use it on the area I need it. Can anyone tell me how to make them do this?

Question 2: How do you zoom in and out? (D:)

Question 3: I set up some beds in a room, and tried to set it as a bedroom. There was no bedroom option available, so I just put it as a meeting room. But when my dwarves have no job to do, they just wander back to the place where they started. How can I fix this?