flyspell

On my Mac (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8), I'm using a modified version of Emacs 24.2 provided here to utilize Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from the downloads page . Emacs works, but I haven't yet been able to get a spell checker to work. To rectify this, I'm following the instructions from this page to download flyspell. I copied the flyspell.el file into my /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp directory, which is apparently the directory of my emacs load path (note that, for instance, the auctex.el file is located in that directory). Then, I modified my .emacs file by adding:

I'm moving from Windows to Mac, and I've spent the whole night trying to get emacs to work. I've installed GNU emacs and simply copied over my Windows .emacs file, which seems to work ok, except for spell check. I installed cocoAspell and followed this setup instruction to add the path and change ispell to aspell, but when I run spell check, I got Error: The file "/use/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading. and FlySpell does not work either. It seems like it's looking at the wrong directory, but I already have (setq ispell-program-name "aspell" ispell-dictionary "english