Newbie with Futurlec 18F4550

I decided to give PIC programming a shot and I trying to learn how to program my board. I am a total newbie here.

The board I got was the PIC18F4550 USB Development Board from Futurlec (http://www.futurlec.com/PIC18F4550_Board.shtml) and I am planning to use a MacOS X based machine for development.

I have downloaded sdcc and pk2cmd, since some sites seem to suggest these as tools. I tried following the example at the end of the following thread without much success:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/good-sdcc-for-pic-tutorial/

Does anyone have a suitable helloled project that can help get me off the ground and any other guidiance?