Calum, I don't think you should be "lol-ing" people for trying to help. Besides, there is no ietester for mac available yet, so you haven't helped either.
Anyway, I'm still struggling with this. Admittedly, I did have my local server set up wrong, so I can now view my site on my local server, but I still have problems in vmware. The screen I get when I go to localhost/8888 is the Apache screen which says I have my server set up correctly, but if I'm not seeing to site I expect to contact the server administrator. (I'll post screenshot when I get back to my laptop.) Any ideas anyone? thanks.