OK, thanks for sharing that. Although I can view the front page, trying to navigate to the main events page simply times out.
I do appreciate you want a functioning plugin and that you reasonably expect it to be simple to set up. What I can say is, for most of our customers that is the experience they have.
When you created this thread you noted that you had tried deactivating all other plugins and reverted to a default, unmodified theme: do you still hit these same problems? Or does it only occur when using Gantry?