After about six hours of struggle, I finally managed to get .Text installed and running properly on my dev machine. What a royal pain! But it's looking pretty good. I compiled the .95 source code from build 102 and have taken a first perusal of how it all works. Not too bad; seems pretty straightforward. If you're having troubles too, best to read the .Text forum.
I'm trying to decide whether to move to either Movable Type (the popular choice) or go with .Text. .Text isn't so feature rich but it looks adequate and I like the idea of going with a dotNet solution.