Need help with Apache on XP Pro

Anyone have experience setting up Apache on a XP Pro machine? I'm
having some difficulties (and yes, I've posted quesitons to newsgroups,
search the web, etc. basically tore my eyes out of my sockets for
several hours last night)

I've had IIS running on my Windows XP box for quite some time now to
host some personal files and parts of my blog. Only recently I've
discovered the reality that XP Pro is a very limited IIS web server:
something like a maximum of 10 users can be connected before IIS starts
issuing 409.3 (Too many users) pages.

So I figured it's about time I tried Apache, after all, it is the most
widely used http server out there. I had some initial difficulties
setting it up, but after lots of googling and lots of newsgroup
searching, I've got it all setup correctly, and can access my localhost
test page through the browser.

I've ran into yet more problems however, and after spending more than
2-3 hours last night digging, I'm kind of stuck. My questions are

-Where should I add my actual site content? In the config file,
DocumentRoot seems to be the correct place, however, if I place
test.html in the directory specified by DocumentRoot, then navigate to
http://localhost/test.html, the page isn't showing up, getting a 404
error I think. What am I doing wrong?

-With IIS, I could go into Windows Explorer, right click on C:\MyMusic,
properties, web sharing, share folder as "music" while granting folder
browse permissions, then VOILA, localhost/music/ would bring me to a
webpage containing all my music files. Can I share a folder like this
in Apache?

New myself and have also felt some pain as a consequence of XPpro
(argh). From what I have read, 'htdocs' is the folder you're looking
for, nested in the Apache folder.