Hi Jason,
check out also the nice http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/lamp.html.
It is a packaged version of Eclipse + e.p.i.c. + many other things, I believe, which works quite well.

I tried it after several failed attempts to install Eclipse + e.p.i.c., and I found it as easy as running ./eclipse from the command line!

I still have some doubts on using Eclipse at all, but nevertheless it's worth trying... ;-)