Head Banging...What am I Doing Wrong?

[ESL Bruce]

I reinstalled Snow Leopard after realizing that I had lost my older
Adobe CS programs with Lion. Everything seems to be working well,
except I can't get Open Vanilla to work. I downloaded OpenVanilla from
Github, unzipped it and placed I placed OpenVanilla.app in the
Library_Input Methods folder and when I turn it on, I don't see a
candidate window like I used to. I just get characters which don't
seem to be related to the pinin. Here's what I see from the home row
keys, going from left to right (asdf...）日尸木火土...actually, thart's as
far as it lets me go...I guess it's another input method....but I
don't know it and I miss the Open Vanilla (although the native Mac
Pinyin in Snow Leopard looks good....) What can I do