[TxMt] Thanks for Latex bundle help

[Lucy Buykx]

Thanks all for the help and comments about the Latex bundle. Sorry if it has gone off topic, but as you can see, I have no way to figure out what is the responsibility of TextMate, of the LaTeX bundle and what has to be handled by something else again e.g. MacTex or TexLive Utility.

I have downloaded and installed MacTex and now when I run the command latex I get "This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)". Says to me that MacTex is also known as pdfTeX and also known as TeX Live 2009. Three different names gets pretty confusing. I also downloaded and installed TexLive Utility which gave me some encouraging feedback and then failed miserably 

"2010-03-23 18:11:18 +0000 Notice -[TLMAppController checkVersionConsistency][51322]	Looks like you're using TeX Live 2009…good!
2010-03-23 18:11:18 +0000 Notice -[TLMAppController checkVersionConsistency][51322]	*** WARNING *** Potential version mismatch between tlmgr and mirror URL http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
2010-03-23 18:11:21 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][51322]	termination status of task /usr/texbin/tlmgr was 2
2010-03-23 18:11:21 +0000 Notice -[TLMOperation main][51322]	Standard error from `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update --list`
tlmgr: package repository ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
unusable location ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, could not load any packages
Cannot load TeX Live database from ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3919."  

So I am part of the way there and now lost in another quagmire I have no idea how to fix. I appreciate this is off topic and I have to go find a list that specialises in TeX to sort this and hope they are gentle with me and don't keep pointing me to the command line :D

Lucy